YHWH brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”
Genesis 13:16 - Y'all Version Bible I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if a man could count the dust of the earth, then could your descendants also be counted. [Gen. 28:14.] American Standard Version (1901) And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then may thy seed also be numbered. Common English Bible I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth. If someone could count the bits of dust on the earth, then they could also count your descendants. Catholic Public Domain Version And I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth. If any man is able to number the dust of the earth, he will be able to number your offspring as well. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also. |
YHWH brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”
The Angel of YHWH said to her, “I will increase-increase your offspring, that they will not be counted for multitude.”
I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”
I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”
As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Indeed, 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 make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
since Abraham will become-become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
I will also make a nation of the son of the servant, because he is your child.”
that I will bless-bless you increase-increase your offspring like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,
Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.
May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,
You said, ‘I will make you prosper-prosper, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which can’t be counted because there are so many.’”
He stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he selected a present for Esau, his brother:
God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.
Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
But YHWH was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and favored them because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them and he didn’t cast them from his presence as yet.
Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.
But David didn’t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because YHWH had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.
Now, YHWH God, let your promise to David my father be established. For you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
You will know also that your offspring will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth.
The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
You must remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply y’all’s descendants as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to y’all’s descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’”
As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’”
Who can count the dust of Jacob, or count the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous! Let my last end be like his!”
YHWH your* God has multiplied y’all, and today, y’all are as numerous the stars of the sky.
And so this one man, though dead, has begotten descendants as numerous as the stars in the heavens and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
After this I looked, and there was massive crowd which no one could count, from every ethnic group, tribe, people, and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
Whenever Israel planted crops, the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east came up against them.
For they came up with their livestock and their tents. They came in as locusts for multitude. Both they and their camels were without number, and they came into the land to destroy it.