I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Genesis 13:16 in context
Genesis 13:13–18
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Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against the LORD.
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The LORD said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,
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for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.
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I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.
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Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”
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Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.
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