Genesis 13:16
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16 (A)I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
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Numbers 23:10
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10 (A)Who can count the dust of Jacob
or number the fourth part[a] of Israel?
Let me die (B)the death of the upright,
and let my end be like his!”
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- Numbers 23:10 Or dust clouds
Genesis 28:14
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14 Your offspring shall be like (A)the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and (B)your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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Genesis 32:12
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12 But (A)you said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.’”
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Romans 4:16-18
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16 That is why it depends on faith, (A)in order that the promise may rest on grace and (B)be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, (C)who is the father of us all, 17 as it is written, (D)“I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, (E)who gives life to the dead and calls into existence (F)the things that do not exist. 18 In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, (G)“So shall your offspring be.”
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1 Kings 3:8
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8 (A)And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, (B)too many to be numbered or counted for multitude.
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Exodus 32:13
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13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you (A)swore by your own self, and said to them, (B)‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
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Genesis 22:17
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17 I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring (A)as the stars of heaven and (B)as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess (C)the gate of his[a] enemies,
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- Genesis 22:17 Or their
Genesis 15:5
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5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and (A)number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, (B)“So shall your offspring be.”
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Revelation 7:9
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A Great Multitude from Every Nation
9 After this I looked, and behold, (A)a great multitude that no one could number, (B)from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, (C)clothed in white robes, with (D)palm branches in their hands,
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Jeremiah 33:22
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22 As (A)the host of heaven cannot be numbered and (B)the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.”
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Isaiah 48:18-19
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18 (A)Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!
(B)Then your peace would have been like a river,
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
19 (C)your offspring would have been like the sand,
and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut off
or destroyed from before me.”
2 Chronicles 17:14-18
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14 This was the muster of them by fathers' houses: Of Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander, with 300,000 mighty men of valor; 15 and next to him Jehohanan the commander, with 280,000; 16 and next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, (A)a volunteer for the service of the Lord, with 200,000 mighty men of valor. 17 Of Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valor, with 200,000 men (B)armed with bow and shield; 18 and next to him Jehozabad with 180,000 armed for war.
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