¹⁶ And ^(A)I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.

¹⁴ Also your ^(A)descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad ^(B)to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and ^(C)in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

¹² For ^(A)You said, ‘I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the ^(B)sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’ ”

¹⁶ Therefore it is of faith that it might be ^(A)according to grace, ^(B)so that the promise might be ^[a]sure to all the seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, ^(C)who is the father of us all ¹⁷ (as it is written, ^(D)“I have made you a father of many nations”) in the presence of Him whom he believed—God, ^(E)who gives life to the dead and calls those ^(F)things which do not exist as though they did; ¹⁸ who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, ^(G)“So shall your descendants be.”