Genesis 13:16

The English Standar Version

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.

Cross References

Numbers 23:10

Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the fourth part[1] of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!"

Genesis 28:14

Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 32:12

But you said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.' "

1 Kings 3:8

And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, too many to be numbered or counted for multitude.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.' "

Genesis 22:17

I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his[4] enemies,

Genesis 15:5

And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."

Revelation 7:9

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,

Jeremiah 33:22

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me."

1 Chronicles 27:23

David did not count those below twenty years of age, for the LORD had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven.

1 Chronicles 21:5

And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the people to David. In all Israel there were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword, and in Judah 470,000 who drew the sword.

1 Kings 4:20

Judah and Israel were as many as the sand by the sea. They ate and drank and were happy.

Judges 6:5

For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come like locusts in number -- both they and their camels could not be counted -- so that they laid waste the land as they came in.

Judges 6:3

For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.

Deuteronomy 1:10

The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Exodus 1:7

But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

Genesis 46:3

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

Genesis 35:11

And God said to him, "I am God Almighty:[4] be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body.[5]

Genesis 28:3

God Almighty[1] bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

Genesis 26:4

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,

Genesis 21:13

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

Genesis 18:18

seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Genesis 17:20

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation.

Genesis 17:16

I will bless her, and moreover, I will give[5] you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her."

Genesis 17:6

I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you.

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

Genesis 16:10

The angel of the LORD also said to her, "I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude."

Genesis 17:2

that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly."

2 Kings 13:23

But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and he turned toward them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, nor has he cast them from his presence until now.

2 Chronicles 1:9

O LORD God, let your word to David my father be now fulfilled, for you have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

Genesis 32:13

So he stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he took a present for his brother Esau,

Job 5:25

You shall know also that your offspring shall be many, and your descendants as the grass of the earth.