Verse 16
Genesis 13:16
Literal Standard Version
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And I have set your seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even your seed is numbered;
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/שַׂמְתִּ֥י אֶֽת זַרְעֲ/ךָ֖ כַּ/עֲפַ֣ר הָ/אָ֑רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אִם יוּכַ֣ל אִ֗ישׁ לִ/מְנוֹת֙ אֶת עֲפַ֣ר הָ/אָ֔רֶץ גַּֽם זַרְעֲ/ךָ֖ יִמָּנֶֽה
English Translation
And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be counted.
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Chapter 13 Context
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And Abram goes up from Egypt (he and his wife, and all that he has, and Lot with him) toward the sou...
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and Abram is exceedingly wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
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And he goes on his journeys from the south, even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at...
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to the place of the altar which he made there at the first, and there Abram preaches in the Name of...
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And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there has been sheep and oxen and tents;
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and the land has not permitted them to dwell together, for their substance has been much, and they h...
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and there is a strife between those feeding Abram’s livestock and those feeding Lot’s livestock; and...
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And Abram says to Lot, “Please let there not be strife between me and you, and between my shepherds...
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Is not all the land before you? Please be parted from me; if to the left, then I to the right; and i...
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And Lot lifts up his eyes, and sees the whole circuit of the Jordan that it is all a watered country...
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and Lot chooses for himself the whole circuit of the Jordan; and Lot journeys from the east, and the...
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Abram has dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot has dwelt in the cities of the circuit, and moves his...
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and the men of Sodom are evil, and sinners before YHWH exceedingly.
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And YHWH said to Abram, after Lot’s being parted from him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the...
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for the whole of the land which you are seeing, I give it to you and to your Seed for all time.
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And I have set your seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the ear...
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rise, go up and down through the land, to its length, and to its breadth, for to you I give it.”
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And Abram moves his tent, and comes, and dwells among the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and bu...
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