I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
Genesis 16:10 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The angel of the LORD said to her, *I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude.* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Also the Angel of the Lord said to her, I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, so that they shall not be numbered for multitude. American Standard Version (1901) And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude. Common English Bible The LORD’s messenger also said to her, “I will give you many children, so many they can’t be counted!” Catholic Public Domain Version And again he said, "I will multiply your offspring continuously, and they will not be numbered because of their multitude." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for multitude. |
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
The angel of the LORD said to her, *Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.*
As for Yishma'el, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
I will also make a nation of the son of the handmaid, because he is your seed.*
She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, *Don't let me see the death of the child.* She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation.*
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
*Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!* says the LORD of Armies.
No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amein.
The angel of the LORD came, and sat under the oak which was in Ofrat, that pertained to Yo'ash the Avi-Ezri: and his son Gid`on was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midyanim.
The LORD said to him, Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midyanim as one man.