Genesis 13:16

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

The LORD brought him outside, and said, *Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.* He said to Avram, *So shall your seed be.*

Genesis 16:10

The angel of the LORD said to her, *I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude.*

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.*

Genesis 17:2

I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.*

Genesis 17:20

As for Yishma'el, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 17:6

I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

Genesis 18:18

seeing that Avraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

Genesis 21:13

I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed.*

Genesis 22:17

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

Genesis 26:4

I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

Genesis 28:14

Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 28:3

May El Shaddai bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

Genesis 32:12

You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'*

Genesis 32:13

He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esav, his brother:

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, *I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

Genesis 46:3

He said, *I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

1 Kings 3:8

Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude.

1 Kings 4:20

Yehudah and Yisra'el were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

2 Kings 13:23

But the LORD was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect to them, because of his covenant with Avraham, Yitzchak, and Ya`akov, and would not destroy them, neither cast he them from his presence as yet.

1 Chronicles 21:5

Yo'av gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Yisra'el were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Yehudah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David didn't take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because the LORD had said he would increase Yisra'el like the stars of the sky.

2 Chronicles 1:9

Now, LORD God, let your promise to David my father be established; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

Job 5:25

You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

Exodus 1:7

The children of Yisra'el were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yisra'el, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'*

Jeremiah 33:22

As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.

Numbers 23:10

Who can count the dust of Ya`akov, Or number the fourth part of Yisra'el? Let me die the death of the righteous, Let my last end be like his!

Deuteronomy 1:10

The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

Revelation 7:9

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

Judges 6:3

So it was, when Yisra'el had sown, that the Midyanim came up, and the `Amaleki, and the children of the east; they came up against them;

Judges 6:5

For they came up with their livestock and their tents; they came in as locusts for multitude; both they and their camels were without number: and they came into the land to destroy it.