Genesis 13:16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth,  so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

Cross References

Numbers 23:10

Who has counted the dust of Jacob or numbered even quarter of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright; let the end of my life be like theirs.

Genesis 28:14

Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth,  and you will spread out towards the west, the east, the north, and the south. All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

Genesis 32:12

You have said, “I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to be counted.” ’

1 Kings 3:8

Your servant is among your people you have chosen,  a people too many to be numbered or counted.

Exodus 32:13

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel #– #you swore to them by yourself  and declared, “I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and will give your offspring all this land that I have promised, and they will inherit it for ever.” ’

Genesis 22:17

I will indeed bless you  and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky  and the sand on the seashore.  Your offspring will possess the city gates of their  enemies.

Genesis 15:5

He took him outside and said, ‘Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.’ Then he said to him, ‘Your offspring will be that numerous.’

Revelation 7:9

After this I looked, and there was a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language,  which no one could number,  standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes with palm branches in their hands.

Jeremiah 33:22

Even as the stars of heaven cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured,  so too I will make innumerable the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who minister to me.’

1 Chronicles 27:23

David didn’t count the men aged twenty or under, for the Lord had said he would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.

1 Chronicles 21:5

Joab gave the total troop registration to David. In all Israel there were one million one hundred thousand armed men  and in Judah itself four hundred and seventy thousand armed men.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea;  they were eating, drinking, and rejoicing.

Judges 6:5

For the Midianites came with their cattle and their tents like a great swarm of locusts.  They and their camels were without number, and they entered the land to lay waste to it.

Judges 6:3

Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east  came and attacked them.

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has so multiplied you that today you are as numerous as the stars of the sky.

Exodus 1:7

But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous  so that the land was filled with them.

Genesis 46:3

God said, ‘I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

Genesis 35:11

God also said to him, ‘I am God Almighty.  Be fruitful and multiply.  A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you,  and kings will descend from you.  ,

Genesis 28:3

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you  so that you become an assembly of peoples.

Genesis 26:4

I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed  by your offspring,

Genesis 21:13

and I will also make a nation of the slave’s son  because he is your offspring.’

Genesis 18:18

Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.

Genesis 17:20

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will certainly bless him; I will make him fruitful and will multiply him greatly. He will father twelve tribal leaders,  and I will make him into a great nation.

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her.  I will bless her, and she will produce nations; kings of peoples will come from her.’

Genesis 17:6

I will make you extremely fruitful and will make nations and kings come from you.

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore, from one man #– #in fact, from one as good as dead #– #came offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and as innumerable as the grains of sand along the seashore.

Genesis 16:10

The angel of the Lord said to her, ‘I will greatly multiply your offspring,  and they will be too many to count.’

Genesis 17:2

I will set up my covenant between me and you, and I will multiply you greatly.’

2 Kings 13:23

but the Lord was gracious to them, had compassion on them,  and turned towards them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  He was not willing to destroy them. Even now he has not banished them from his presence.

2 Chronicles 1:9

Lord God, let your promise to my father David now come true.  For you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

Genesis 32:13

He spent the night there and took part of what he had brought with him as a gift for his brother Esau:

Job 5:25

You will also know that your offspring will be many and your descendants like the grass of the earth.