Genesis 13:16

Modern English Version

I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be numbered.

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

He brought him outside and said, “Look up toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So will your descendants be.”

Genesis 16:10

The angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will multiply your descendants exceedingly so that they will be too many to count.”

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her and also give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

Genesis 17:2

And I will make My covenant between you and Me and will exceedingly multiply you.”

Genesis 17:20

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold. I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He will be 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, and kings will come from you.

Genesis 18:18

since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

Genesis 21:13

Yet I will also make a nation of the son of the slave woman, because he is your offspring.”

Genesis 22:17

I will indeed bless you and I will indeed multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens and as the sand that is on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gate of their enemies.

Genesis 26:4

I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of the heavens and will give your descendants all these lands. By your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be like 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, and in you and in your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 28:3

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a multitude of people.

Genesis 32:12

You said, ‘I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too many to be counted.’ ”

Genesis 32:13

So he spent the night there. Then he selected from what he had with him a gift for his brother Esau:

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will come from you, and kings shall come forth from you.

Genesis 46:3

Then He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

1 Kings 3:8

And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, so numerous that they cannot be numbered or counted.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel had a large populace, as numerous as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy.

2 Kings 13:23

But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them. He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not yet destroy them or cast them from His presence.

1 Chronicles 21:5

Joab gave the results of the census of the people to David: All Israel had one million one hundred thousand men who drew the sword, and in Judah four hundred and seventy thousand men drew the sword.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David did not take the number from twenty years old and under because the Lord had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of the heavens.

2 Chronicles 1:9

Now, Lord God, may Your word to David my father be confirmed, for You have made me king over a people numerous as the dust of the earth.

Job 5:25

You will know that your offspring will be many and your descendants as the grass of the earth.

Exodus 1:7

Nevertheless, the sons of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty, so that the land was filled with them.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’ ”

Jeremiah 33:22

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the seed of David My servant and the Levites that minister to Me.

Numbers 23:10

Who can count the dust of Jacob and the number of one-fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!”

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore from one man, who was as good as dead, sprang so many, a multitude as the stars of the sky and innumerable as the sand by the seashore.

Revelation 7:9

Then I looked. And behold, there was a great multitude which no one could count, from all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

Judges 6:3

Whenever Israel would plant crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would come up against them.

Judges 6:5

For they came with their livestock and tents like a swarm of locusts. They and their camels were too numerous to count, and they came into the land to destroy it.