I will richly bless thee, and greatly multiply thy seed, as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

And Joseph laid up corn as sand of the sea exceeding much, until they left off numbering; for it was without number.

And I said, I shall die in my nest, and multiply my days as the sand;

As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.

And every one who hears these my words and does not do them, he shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand;