Genesis 13:16

New American Standard Bible 2020

I will make your descendants as plentiful as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can count the dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be counted.

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

Genesis 16:10

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

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall 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 I will multiply you exceedingly.”

Genesis 17:20

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and make him fruitful and multiply him exceedingly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into 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 certainly become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?

Genesis 21:13

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

Genesis 22:17

indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand, which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

Genesis 26:4

I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth 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 peoples.

Genesis 32:12

For You said, ‘I will assuredly make you prosper and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great 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 also said to him, “I am God Almighty; Be fruitful and multiply; A nation and a multitude of nations shall come from you, And kings shall come 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 who are too many to be numbered or counted.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance; they were eating, drinking, and rejoicing.

2 Kings 13:23

But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion on them and turned to them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and He was unwilling to eliminate them or cast them away from His presence until now.

1 Chronicles 21:5

Then Joab gave the number of the census of the people to David. Israel was 1,100,000 men in all who drew the sword; and Judah was 470,000 men who drew the sword.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David did not count those twenty years of age and under, because the Lord had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.

2 Chronicles 1:9

Now, Lord God, Your promise to my father David is fulfilled, for You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

Job 5:25

“You will also know that your descendants will be many, And your offspring as the grass of the earth.

Exodus 1:7

But the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly, 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 of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”

Jeremiah 33:22

As the heavenly lights cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who serve Me.’ ”

Numbers 23:10

“Who has counted the dust of Jacob, Or the number of the fourth part of Israel? May I die the death of the upright, And may my end be like his!”

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore even from one man, and one who was as good as dead at that, there were born descendants who were just as the stars of heaven in number, and as the innumerable grains of sand along the seashore.

Revelation 7:9

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all the tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;

Judges 6:3

For whenever Israel had sown, the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the people of the east and march against them.

Judges 6:5

For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, they would come in like locusts in number, and both they and their camels were innumerable; and they came into the land to ruin it.