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Genesis 13:16

American Standard Version

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.

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Genesis 13:16 in other translations

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.

Genesis 13:16 · World English Bible

Genesis 13:16 in context

  1. 14And Jehovah said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward:
  2. 15for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
  3. 16And 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.
  4. 17Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for unto thee will I give it.
  5. 18And Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built there an altar unto Jehovah.