Genesis 32:12 - The Scriptures 2009

¹² For You said, ‘I shall certainly do good to you, and shall make your seed as the sand of the sea, which are too numerous to count.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And You said, I will surely do you good and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

Common English Bible

¹² You were the one who told me, ‘I will make sure things go well for you, and I will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, so many you won’t be able to count them.’”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² You did say that you would do well by me, and that you would expand my offspring like the sand of the sea, which, because of its multitude, cannot be numbered."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² Thou didst say that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for the multitude.

Genesis 32:12 Cross References

Genesis 22:17

that I shall certainly bless you, and I shall certainly increase your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore, and let your seed possess the gate of their enemies.

Genesis 32:6

So the messengers returned to Ya‛aqoḇ, saying, “We came to your brother Ěsaw, and he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him.”

1 Kings 4:20

Yehuḏah and Yisra’ĕl were as numerous as the sand by the sea, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

Exodus 32:13

“Remember Aḇraham, Yitsḥaq, and Yisra’ĕl, Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I increase your seed like the stars of the heavens. And all this land that I have spoken of I give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”

Hosea 1:10

“Yet the number of the children of Yisra’ĕl shall be as the sand of the sea, which is not measured nor counted. And it shall be in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they shall be called, ‘You are the sons of the living Ěl.’

Numbers 23:19

"Ěl is not a man, to lie; nor a son of man, to repent! Has He said, and would He not do it; or spoken, and would not confirm it?

Matthew 24:35

“The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but My words shall by no means pass away.

2 Timothy 2:13

If we are not trustworthy, He remains trustworthy, it is impossible for Him to deny Himself.

Titus 1:2

in expectation of everlasting life which Elohim, who does not lie, promised before times of old,

Hebrews 11:12

And so from one, and him as good as dead, were born as numerous as the stars of the heaven, as countless as the sand which is by the seashore.

Hebrews 6:17

In this way Elohim, resolving to show even more clearly to the heirs of promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, confirmed it by an oath,

1 Samuel 15:29

“Moreover, the Eminence of Yisra’ĕl does not lie nor relent. For He is not a man, that He should relent.”