Genesis 13:16

Catholic Public Domain Version

And I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth. If any man is able to number the dust of the earth, he will be able to number your offspring as well.

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

And he brought him outside, and he said to him, "Take in the heavens, and number the stars, if you can." And he said to him, "So also will your offspring be."

Genesis 16:10

And again he said, "I will multiply your offspring continuously, and they will not be numbered because of their multitude."

Genesis 17:16

And I will bless her, and from her I will give you a son, whom I will bless, and he will be among the nations, and the kings of the peoples will rise from him."

Genesis 17:2

And I will set my covenant between me and you. And I will multiply you very exceedingly."

Genesis 17:20

Likewise, concerning Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I will bless and enlarge him, and I will multiply him greatly. He will produce twelve leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.

Genesis 17:6

And I will cause you to increase very greatly, and I will set you among the nations, and kings will come forth from you.

Genesis 18:18

since he will become a great and very robust nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?

Genesis 21:13

Yet I will also make the son of the woman servant into a great nation, for he is your offspring."

Genesis 22:17

I will bless you, and I will multiply your offspring like the stars of heaven, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 26:4

And I will multiply your offspring like the stars of heaven. And I will give to your posterity all these regions. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

Genesis 28:14

And your offspring will be like the dust of the earth. You will spread abroad to the West, and to the East, and to the North, and to the Meridian. And in you and in your offspring, all the tribes of the earth shall be blessed.

Genesis 28:3

And may God almighty bless you, and may he cause you to increase and also to multiply, so that you may be influential among the people.

Genesis 32:12

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."

Genesis 32:13

And when he had slept there that night, he separated, from the things that he had, gifts for his brother Esau:

Genesis 35:11

and he said to him: "I am Almighty God: increase and multiply. Tribes and peoples of nations will be from you, and kings will go forth from your loins.

Genesis 46:3

God said to him: "I am the most strong God of your father. Do not be afraid. Descend into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

1 Kings 3:8

And your servant is in the midst of the people that you have chosen, an immense people, who are not able to be numbered or counted because of their multitude.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were innumerable, like the sand of the sea in multitude: eating and drinking, and rejoicing.

2 Kings 13:23

But the Lord took pity on them, and he returned to them, because of his covenant, which he had made with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob. And he was not willing to destroy them, nor to cast them out completely, even to the present time.

1 Chronicles 21:5

And he gave to David the number of those whom he had surveyed. And the entire number of Israel was found to be one million and one hundred thousand men who could draw the sword; but from Judah, there were four hundred and seventy thousand men of war.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David was not willing to number them from twenty years old and under. For the Lord had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven.

2 Chronicles 1:9

Now therefore, O Lord God, let your word be fulfilled, which you promised to my father David. For you have made me king over your great people, who are as innumerable as the dust of the earth.

Job 5:25

Likewise, you will know that your offspring will be manifold and your progeny will be like the grass of the earth.

Exodus 1:7

the sons of Israel increased, and they multiplied like seedlings. And having been strengthened exceedingly, they filled the land.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your very self, saying: 'I will multiply your offspring like the stars of heaven. And this entire land, about which I have spoken, I will give to your offspring. And you shall possess it forever.' "

Jeremiah 33:22

Just as the stars of heaven are not able to be numbered, and the sand of the sea is not able to be measured, so will I multiply the offspring of David, my servant, and the Levites, my ministers."

Numbers 23:10

Who can number the dust that is Jacob, and who can know the number of the stock of Israel? May my soul die a just death, and may my end be like theirs."

Deuteronomy 1:10

'I alone am not able to sustain you. For the Lord, your God, has multiplied you, and you are today like the stars of heaven, very many.

Hebrews 11:12

Because of this, there were also born, from one who himself was as if dead, a mulititude like the stars of heaven, who are, like the sand of the seashore, innumerable.

Revelation 7:9

After these things, I saw a great crowd, which no one could number, from all the nations and tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and in sight of the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

Judges 6:3

And when Israel had planted, Midian and Amalek, and the rest of the eastern nations ascended,

Judges 6:5

For they and all their flocks arrived with their tents, and they filled all places like locusts, an innumerable multitude of men and camels, devastating whatever they touched.