Genesis 13:16
World English Bible (WEB)
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.
In context
14 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,
15 for I will give all the land which you see to you and to your offspring forever.
16 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.
17 Arise, walk through the land in its length and in its width; for I will give it to you.”
18 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.
Genesis 13:16 in every translation
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.