Genesis 13:16

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Summary

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.

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And I will make you a great nation,
And I will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so

you shall be a blessing;

And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come forth from you.

since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?

And of the son of the maid I will make a nation also, because he is your descendant.”

indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

May

God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

For You said, ‘I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered.’”

God also said to him,
“I am

God Almighty;

Be fruitful and multiply;

A nation and a company of nations shall come from you,
And kings shall come forth from you.

He said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.

But the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty, so that the land was filled with them.

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

“Who can count the dust of Jacob,
Or number the fourth part of Israel?

Let me die the death of the upright,

And let my end be like his!”

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.

For it was when Israel had sown, that the Midianites would come up with the Amalekites and the sons of the east and go against them.

Your servant is in the midst of Your people which You have chosen, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted.

Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance; they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.

Joab gave the number of the census of all the people to David. And all Israel were 1,100,000 men who drew the sword; and Judah was 470,000 men who drew the sword.

But David did not count those twenty years of age and under, because the Lord had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.

This was their muster according to their fathers’ households: of Judah, commanders of thousands, Adnah was the commander, and with him 300,000 valiant warriors;

“If only you had paid attention to My commandments!
Then your

well-being would have been like a river,

And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

As the host of heaven cannot be counted and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.’”

For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to

those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

Therefore there was born even of one man, and him as good as dead at that, as many descendants as the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;