Genesis 13:16

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

I will make your people so many that they will be like the dust of the earth. If people could count all the particles of dust on earth, they could count your people.

Cross References

Numbers 23:10

Who can count Jacob’s people? They are as many as the grains of dust. No one can count even a fourth of the Israelites. Let me die like a good man. Let my life end as happy as theirs!”

Genesis 28:14

You will have as many descendants as there are particles of dust on the earth. They will spread east and west, north and south. All the families on earth will be blessed because of you and your descendants.

Genesis 32:12

Lord, you said to me, ‘I will be good to you. I will increase your family and make your children as many as the sands of the sea. There will be too many to count.’”

1 Kings 3:8

I am your servant here among your chosen people. There are so many that they cannot be counted.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. These men served you, and you used your name to make a promise to them. You said, ‘I will make your people as many as the stars in the sky. I will give your people all this land as I promised. This land will be theirs forever.’”

Genesis 22:17

I will surely bless you and give you as many descendants as the stars in the sky. There will be as many people as sand on the seashore. And your people will live in cities that they will take from their enemies.

Genesis 15:5

Then God led Abram outside and said, “Look at the sky. See the many stars. There are so many you cannot count them. Your family will be like that.”

Revelation 7:9

Then I looked, and there was a large crowd of people. There were so many people that no one could count them all. They were from every nation, tribe, race of people, and language of the earth. They were standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They all wore white robes and had palm branches in their hands.

Jeremiah 33:22

But I will give many descendants to my servant David and to the tribe of Levi. They will be as many as the stars in the sky—no one can count all the stars. And they will be as many as the grains of sand on the seashore—no one can count the grains of sand.”

1 Chronicles 27:23

David decided to count the men in Israel. There were very many people because the Lord had promised to make the Israelites as many as the stars in the sky. So David counted only the men who were 20 years old and older.

1 Chronicles 21:5

and told David how many people there were. In Israel there were 1,100,000 men who could use a sword. And there were 470,000 men in Judah who could use a sword.

1 Kings 4:20

In Judah and Israel there were as many people as sand on the seashore. The people were happy and had plenty to eat and drink.

Judges 6:5

The Midianites came with their families, animals, and tents. They were like a swarm of locusts! They and their camels were too many to count. They came into the land and ruined it.

Judges 6:3

They did that because the Midianites and Amalekites from the east always came and destroyed their crops.

Deuteronomy 1:10

And now, there are even more of you. The Lord your God has added more and more people, so that today you are as many as the stars in the sky.

Exodus 1:7

But the Israelites had many children, and their number grew until the country of Egypt was filled with them.

Genesis 46:3

Then God said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go to Egypt. In Egypt I will make you a great nation.

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, “I am God All-Powerful, and I give you this blessing: Have many children and grow into a great nation. Other nations and other kings will come out of you.

Genesis 28:3

I pray that God All-Powerful will bless you and give you many children. I pray that you will become the father of a great nation

Genesis 26:4

I will make your family as many as the stars of heaven, and I will give all these lands to your family. Through your descendants every nation on earth will be blessed.

Genesis 21:13

But I will also bless the son of your slave woman. He is your son, so I will make a great nation from his family also.”

Genesis 18:18

Abraham will become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on earth will be blessed because of him.

Genesis 17:20

“You mentioned Ishmael, and I heard you. I will bless him, and he will have many children. He will be the father of twelve great leaders. His family will become a great nation.

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her. I will give her a son, and you will be the father. She will be the mother of many new nations. Kings of nations will come from her.”

Genesis 17:6

I will give you many descendants. New nations and kings will come from you.

Hebrews 11:12

Abraham was so old he was almost dead. But from that one man came as many descendants as there are stars in the sky. So many people came from him that they are like grains of sand on the seashore.

Genesis 16:10

The angel of the Lord also said, “From you will come many people—too many people to count.”

Genesis 17:2

If you do this, I will prepare an agreement between us. I will promise to make your people a great nation.”

2 Kings 13:23

But the Lord was kind to the Israelites. He had mercy and showed his care for them because of his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He did not want them to be destroyed. He has never completely left them.

2 Chronicles 1:9

Now, Lord God, continue to keep your promise to my father David. You made me king over so many people that they are like the dust of the earth.

Genesis 32:13

Jacob stayed in that place for the night. He prepared some things to give to Esau as a gift.

Job 5:25

You will have many children. They will be as many as the blades of grass on the earth.