Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Genesis 13:16
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I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
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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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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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ASVAmerican 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
14 After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
15 for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.
17 Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”
18 So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.
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