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Genesis 13:16

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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.

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Genesis 13:16 in other translations

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.

Genesis 13:16 · American Standard Version

Genesis 13:16 in context

  1. 14Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
  2. 15for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.
  3. 16I 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.
  4. 17Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”
  5. 18Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.