Genesis 13:16

Translations

Modern

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.

Traditional

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.

Literal

And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man is able to number the dust of the earth, then also your seed could be numbered.

Latin

Faciamque semen tuum sicut pulverem terræ: si quis potest hominum numerare pulverem terræ, semen quoque tuum numerare poterit.

Interlinear

Hebrew

English

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.

Notes

Genesis 13:14–17

Abram could give Lot the choice land because he believed in God’s promise. Abram waited for God to give him the land. Lot just took what he wanted.

Genesis 13:11–18

The narrator makes many contrasts between Lot and Abram.

Theme notes and profiles

Abraham God’s Covenant with Abraham Holy War Inheriting the Land Promised Land Symbolic Numbers The Land

Events

Abraham and Lot Separatec. 1920 BC

Related verses

Genesis 28:14
Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
Numbers 23:10
Who can count the dust of Jacob or number even a fourth of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous; let my end be like theirs!”
Exodus 32:13
Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”
Genesis 22:17
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
Genesis 32:12
But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
1 Kings 3:8
Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.
Romans 4:16–18
Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.
Genesis 15:5
And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
Revelation 7:9
After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.
Genesis 25:1–34
Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah,
Genesis 46:3
“I am God,” He said, “the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
Genesis 12:2–3
I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Glossary

Bible, Manuscripts and Text of the (New Testament) Ebla Tablets Genesis, Book of Land Patriarchs, Period of the Sodom and Gomorrah

Topics

Canaan: Land of Promised to Abraham and his Seed Israel: Prophecies About the Multitude of Land: Original Title To, from God The Canaanites: Abraham was Promised the Country of, of Inheritance The Jews: Promises Respecting Made to Abraham

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