Genesis 13:16

New Century Version

I will make your descendants as many as the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust on the earth, he could count your people.

Cross References

Numbers 23:10

No one can number the many people of Jacob, and no one can count a fourth of Israel. Let me die like good men, and let me end up like them!”

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be as many as the dust of the earth. They will spread west and east, north and south, and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

Genesis 32:12

You said to me, ‘I will treat you well and will make your children as many as the sand of the seashore. There will be too many to count.’ ”

1 Kings 3:8

I, your servant, am here among your chosen people, and there are too many of them to count.

Exodus 32:13

Remember the men who served you—Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. You promised with an oath to them and said, ‘I will make your descendants as many as the stars in the sky. I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised them, and it will be theirs forever.’ ”

Genesis 22:17

I will surely bless you and give you many descendants. They will be as many as the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, and they will capture the cities of their enemies.

Genesis 15:5

Then God led Abram outside and said, “Look at the sky. There are so many stars you cannot count them. Your descendants also will be too many to count.”

Revelation 7:9

After the vision of these things I looked, and there was a great number of people, so many that no one could count them. They were from every nation, tribe, people, and language of the earth. They were all standing before the throne and before the Lamb, wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.

Jeremiah 33:22

But I will give many descendants to my servant David and to the family group of Levi who serve me in the Temple. They will be as many as the stars in the sky that no one can count. They will be as many as the grains of sand on the seashore that no one can measure.”

1 Chronicles 27:23

The Lord had promised to make the Israelites as many as the stars in the sky. So David only counted the men who were twenty years old and older.

1 Chronicles 21:5

Joab gave the list of the people to David. There were one million one hundred thousand men in all of Israel who could use the sword, and there were four hundred seventy thousand men in Judah who could use the sword.

1 Kings 4:20

There were as many people in Judah and Israel as grains of sand on the seashore. The people ate, drank, and were happy.

Judges 6:5

The Midianites came with their tents and their animals like swarms of locusts to ruin the land. There were so many people and camels they could not be counted.

Judges 6:3

Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other peoples from the east would come and attack them.

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has made you grow in number so that there are as many of you as there are stars in the sky.

Exodus 1:7

But the people of Israel had many children, and their number grew greatly. They became very strong, and 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, because I will make your descendants a great nation there.

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Have many children and grow in number as a nation. You will be the ancestor of many nations and kings.

Genesis 28:3

May God Almighty bless you and give you many children, and may you become a group of many peoples.

Genesis 26:4

I will give you many descendants, as hard to count as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. Through your descendants all the nations on the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 21:13

I will also make the descendants of Ishmael into a great nation because he is your son, too.”

Genesis 18:18

Abraham’s children will certainly become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.

Genesis 17:20

“As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will bless him and give him many descendants. And I will cause their numbers to grow greatly. He will be the father of twelve great leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.

Genesis 17:16

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

Genesis 17:6

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

Hebrews 11:12

This man was so old he was almost dead, but from him came as many descendants as there are stars in the sky. Like the sand on the seashore, they could not be counted.

Genesis 16:10

The angel also said, “I will give you so many descendants they cannot be counted.”

Genesis 17:2

I will make an agreement between us, and I will make you the ancestor of many people.”

2 Kings 13:23

But the Lord was kind to the Israelites; he had mercy on them and helped them because of his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. To this day he has never wanted to destroy them or reject them.

2 Chronicles 1:9

Now, Lord God, may your promise to my father David come true. You have made me king of a people who are as many as the dust of the earth.

Genesis 32:13

Jacob stayed there for the night and prepared a gift for Esau from what he had with him:

Job 5:25

You will know that you will have many children, and your descendants will be like the grass on the earth.