Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied: and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.
Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever.
I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the droves of thy herds, and the folds of thy sheep.
And he thought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven, and number the stars, if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.
I will look on you, and make you increase: you shell be multiplied, and I will establish my covenant with you.
And thy seed had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof: his name should not have perished, nor have been destroyed from before my face.
And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.