Genesis 13:16
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.
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Genesis 16:10
Then the Angel added, "I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count."

Genesis 17:2
I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly."

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!"

2 Kings 13:23
But the LORD was gracious to them and had compassion on them, and He turned toward them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And to this day, He has been unwilling to destroy them or cast them from His presence.

2 Chronicles 1:9
Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to my father David be fulfilled. For You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

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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. . . .

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 declared, "So shall your offspring be."

Genesis 17:6, 16, 20
I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you. . . .

Genesis 18:18
Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 21:13
But I will also make a nation of the slave woman's son, because he is your offspring."

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 25:1-34
Now Abraham had taken another wife, named Keturah, . . .

Genesis 26:4
I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,

Genesis 28:3, 14
May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples. . . .

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.'"

Genesis 35:11
And God told him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation--even a company of nations--shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.

Genesis 36:1-43
This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom). . . .

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.

Exodus 1:7
but the Israelites were fruitful and increased abundantly; they multiplied and became exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

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.'"

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!"

Deuteronomy 1:10
The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Judges 6:3, 5
Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the East would come up and invade them, . . .

1 Kings 3:8
Your servant is here among the people You have chosen, a people too numerous to count or number.

1 Kings 4:20
Judah and Israel became as numerous as the sand by the sea, eating and drinking and rejoicing.

1 Chronicles 21:5
And Joab reported to David the total number of the troops. In all Israel there were 1, 100, 000 men who drew the sword, including 470, 000 in Judah.

1 Chronicles 27:23
David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.

2 Chronicles 17:14-18
These are their numbers according to the houses of their fathers: For Judah, the commanders of thousands: Adnah the commander and 300, 000 mighty warriors with him; . . .

Isaiah 48:18
If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.

Isaiah 48:19
Your descendants would have been as countless as the sand, and your offspring as its grains; their name would never be cut off or eliminated from My presence."

Jeremiah 33:22
As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who minister before Me."

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. . . .

Hebrews 11:12
And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

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 were holding palm branches in their hands.

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