Genesis 28:14

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Summary

And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Thy seed

To the west

Genesis 13:14

Deuteronomy 12:20

Matthew 8:11

And in thee

General references

Luke 13:29

Bible References

Thy seed

And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.

And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;

Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!

You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.

And there came to my ears the number of those who had the mark on their brows, a hundred and forty-four thousand, who were marked out of every tribe of the people of Israel.

To the west

And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:

When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.

And I say to you that numbers will come from the east and the west, and will take their seats with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven:

And in thee

To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.

I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;

May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name.

You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.

And the holy Writings, seeing before the event that God would give the Gentiles righteousness by faith, gave the good news before to Abraham, saying, In you will all the nations have a blessing.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:

General references

And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers;

So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he gave by oath to their fathers; so it became their heritage and their living-place.

You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.

As he gave his word to our fathers.

And they will come from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south, and take their places in the kingdom of God.