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Genesis 13:16

Good News Translation (US Version)

I am going to give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them all; it would be as easy to count all the specks of dust on earth!

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The descendants of Israel are like the dust— There are too many of them to be counted. Let me end my days like one of God's people; Let me die in peace like the righteous.”

They will be as numerous as the specks of dust on the earth. They will extend their territory in all directions, and through you and your descendants I will bless all the nations.

Remember that you promised to make everything go well for me and to give me more descendants than anyone could count, as many as the grains of sand along the seashore.”

Here I am among the people you have chosen to be your own, a people who are so many that they cannot be counted.

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Remember the solemn promise you made to them to give them as many descendants as there are stars in the sky and to give their descendants all that land you promised would be their possession forever.”

I promise that I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand along the seashore. Your descendants will conquer their enemies.

The Lord took him outside and said, “Look at the sky and try to count the stars; you will have as many descendants as that.”

After this I looked, and there was an enormous crowd—no one could count all the people! They were from every race, tribe, nation, and language, and they stood in front of the throne and of the Lamb, dressed in white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.

I will increase the number of descendants of my servant David and the number of priests from the tribe of Levi, so that it will be as impossible to count them as it is to count the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore.”

King David did not take a census of the people who were under the age of twenty, because of the Lord's promise to make the people of Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.

He reported to King David the total number of men capable of military service: 1,100,000 in Israel and 470,000 in Judah.

The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore; they ate and drank, and were happy.

They would come with their livestock and tents, as thick as locusts. They and their camels were too many to count. They came and devastated the land,

Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites would come with the Amalekites and the desert tribes and attack them.

The Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

but their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and became so numerous and strong that Egypt was filled with them.

“I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go to Egypt; I will make your descendants a great nation there.

And God said to him, “I am Almighty God. Have many children. Nations will be descended from you, and you will be the ancestor of kings.

May Almighty God bless your marriage and give you many children, so that you will become the father of many nations!

I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give them all this territory. All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants.

I will also give many children to the son of the slave woman, so that they will become a nation. He too is your son.”

His descendants will become a great and mighty nation, and through him I will bless all the nations.

I have heard your request about Ishmael, so I will bless him and give him many children and many descendants. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make a great nation of his descendants.

I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will become the mother of nations, and there will be kings among her descendants.”

I will give you many descendants, and some of them will be kings. You will have so many descendants that they will become nations.

Though Abraham was practically dead, from this one man came as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, as many as the numberless grains of sand on the seashore.

Then he said, “I will give you so many descendants that no one will be able to count them.

I will make my covenant with you and give you many descendants.”

but the Lord was kind and merciful to them. He would not let them be destroyed, but helped them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He has never forgotten his people.

O Lord God, fulfill the promise you made to my father. You have made me king over a people who are so many that they cannot be counted,

After spending the night there, Jacob chose from his livestock as a present for his brother Esau: 200 female goats and 20 males, 200 female sheep and 20 males, 30 milk camels with their young, 40 cows and 10 bulls, 20 female donkeys and 10 males.

You will have as many children as there are blades of grass in a pasture.




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