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Genesis 32:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.” ’

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Because God wanted to show his unchangeable purpose even more clearly to the heirs of the promise, he guaranteed it with an oath,


in the hope of eternal life  that God, who cannot lie,  promised before time began.


if we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself.


Heaven and earth will pass away,   but my words will never pass away.


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.


Furthermore, the Eternal One of Israel  does not lie or change his mind, for he is not man who changes his mind.’


God is not a man, that he might lie, or a son of man, that he might change his mind. Does he speak and not act, or promise and not fulfil?


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.” ’


When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, ‘We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you #– #and he has four hundred men with him.’


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.


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


Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And in the place where they were told: You are not my people, they will be called: Sons of the living God.





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