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Genesis 32:12

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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.’ ”

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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.

The messengers returned to Jacob and said, “We went to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you and has four hundred men with him.”

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

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.’ ”

“But the number of the Israelites will become like the grains of sand of the sea, which no one can measure or count. They were called, ‘You are not my people,’ but later they will be called ‘children of the living God.’

God is not a human being, and he will not lie. He is not a human, and he does not change his mind. What he says he will do, he does. What he promises, he makes come true.

Earth and sky will be destroyed, but the words I have said will never be destroyed.

If we are not faithful, he will still be faithful, because he must be true to who he is.

That faith and that knowledge come from the hope for life forever, which God promised to us before time began. And God cannot lie.

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.

God wanted to prove that his promise was true to those who would get what he promised. And he wanted them to understand clearly that his purposes never change, so he made an oath.

The Lord is the Eternal One of Israel. He does not lie or change his mind. He is not a human being, so he does not change his mind.




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