Genesis 13:16
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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.
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Numbers 23:10
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10 “Who(A) can count the [a]dust of Jacob,
Or number one-fourth of Israel?
Let me die (B)the death of the righteous,
And let my end be like his!”
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- Numbers 23:10 Or dust cloud
Genesis 28:14
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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.
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Genesis 32:12
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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.’ ”
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Romans 4:16-18
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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.”
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- Romans 4:16 certain
1 Kings 3:8
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8 And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You (A)have chosen, a great people, (B)too numerous to be numbered or counted.
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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 descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”
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Genesis 22:17
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17 blessing I will (A)bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants (B)as the stars of the heaven (C)and as the sand which is on the seashore; and (D)your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
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Genesis 15:5
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5 Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and (A)count the (B)stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, (C)“So shall your (D)descendants be.”
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Revelation 7:9
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A Multitude from the Great Tribulation
9 After these things I looked, and behold, (A)a great multitude which no one could number, (B)of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, (C)clothed with white robes, with 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, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I (B)multiply the descendants of David My servant and the (C)Levites who minister to Me.’ ”
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Isaiah 48:18-19
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18 (A)Oh, that you had heeded My commandments!
(B)Then your peace would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
19 (C)Your descendants also would have been like the sand,
And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand;
His name would not have been cut off
Nor destroyed from before Me.”
2 Chronicles 17:14-18
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14 These are their numbers, according to their fathers’ houses. Of Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him three hundred thousand mighty men of valor; 15 and next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand; 16 and next to him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, (A)who willingly offered himself to the Lord, and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valor. 17 Of Benjamin: Eliada a mighty man of valor, and with him two hundred thousand men armed with bow and shield; 18 and next to him was Jehozabad, and with him one hundred and eighty thousand prepared for war.
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