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.
Genesis 32:12 - Y'all Version Bible 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.’” 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-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.
The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.
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.’”
Yet the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And in the place where it was said to them, ‘Y’all are not my people,’ they will be called ‘Children of the living God.’
God is not a human, that he should lie, nor a son of a human, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?
If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he cannot deny himself.”
in the hope of eternal life, which the unlying God promised before time eternal,
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.
In the same way God, being determined to clearly show the unchangeableness of his promise to the heirs of the promise, mediated with an oath,
Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”