that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
Genesis 32:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And You said, I will surely do you good and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. American Standard Version (1901) And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. Common English Bible You were the one who told me, ‘I will make sure things go well for you, and I will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, so many you won’t be able to count them.’” Catholic Public Domain Version You did say that you would do well by me, and that you would expand my offspring like the sand of the sea, which, because of its multitude, cannot be numbered." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou didst say that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for the multitude. |
that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
The messengers returned to Ya`akov, saying, *We came to your brother Esav. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him.*
Yehudah and Yisra'el were many as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
Remember Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yisra'el, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'*
Yet the number of the children of Yisra'el will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
in hope of eternal life, which God, who can't lie, promised before time began;
Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.
In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath;
Also the Strength of Yisra'el will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.