Genesis 13:16
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
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.
In context
14 After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
15 for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
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.
17 Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”
18 So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.
Genesis 13:16 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- 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.
- KJV King James Version
- And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
- WEB World English Bible
- 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.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then may thy seed also be numbered.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And I have set thy seed as dust of the earth, so that, if one is able to number the dust of the earth, even thy seed is numbered;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if any one can number the dust of the earth, thy seed also will be numbered.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.