Genesis 32:12

New Living Translation

But you promised me, ‘I will surely treat you kindly, and I will multiply your descendants until they become as numerous as the sands along the seashore—too many to count.’”

Cross References

Genesis 22:17

I will certainly bless you. I will multiply your descendants beyond number, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will conquer the cities of their enemies.

Genesis 32:6

After delivering the message, the messengers returned to Jacob and reported, “We met your brother, Esau, and he is already on his way to meet you—with an army of 400 men!”

1 Kings 4:20

The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They were very contented, with plenty to eat and drink.

Exodus 32:13

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You bound yourself with an oath to them, saying, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven. And I will give them all of this land that I have promised to your descendants, and they will possess it forever.’”

Hosea 1:10

“Yet the time will come when Israel’s people will be like the sands of the seashore—too many to count! Then, at the place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ it will be said, ‘You are children of the living God.’

Numbers 23:19

God is not a man, so he does not lie. He is not human, so he does not change his mind. Has he ever spoken and failed to act? Has he ever promised and not carried it through?

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear.

2 Timothy 2:13

If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny who he is.

Titus 1:2

This truth gives them confidence that they have eternal life, which God—who does not lie—promised them before the world began.

Hebrews 11:12

And so a whole nation came from this one man who was as good as dead—a nation with so many people that, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, there is no way to count them.

Hebrews 6:17

God also bound himself with an oath, so that those who received the promise could be perfectly sure that he would never change his mind.

1 Samuel 15:29

And he who is the Glory of Israel will not lie, nor will he change his mind, for he is not human that he should change his mind!”