I will make your seed like the dust of the earth so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your seed could also be counted.
Genesis 16:10 - Tree of Life Version Then the angel of Adonai said to her, “I will bountifully multiply your seed, and they will be too many to count.” 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 seed like the dust of the earth so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your seed could also be counted.
The angel of Adonai said, “Return to your mistress and humble yourself under her hand.”
As for Ishmael, I have heard you. See, I have blessed him and I will make him fruitful, and I will multiply him very very much. He will father twelve princes and I will make him a great nation.
Yet I will also make the son of the slave woman into a nation, because he is your seed.”
Then she went and sat herself down opposite, about a bowshot away, for she had said, “I can’t bear to see the child dying!” So she sat down opposite and lifted up her voice and wept.
Get up! Lift the boy up, and hold on to him with your hand, for I will make him a great nation.”
In all their affliction He was afflicted. So the angel of His presence saved them. In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them, then He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.
“Behold, I am sending My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. Suddenly He will come to His Temple —the Lord whom you seek— and the Messenger of the covenant —the One whom you desire— behold, He is coming,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot.
No one has ever seen God; but the one and only God, in the Father’s embrace, has made Him known.
who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or is able to see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.
Then the angel of Adonai came and sat under the terebinth that was at Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress—in order to hide it from the Midianites.
But Adonai said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you will strike down Midian as if it were one man.”