And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">You will also know that your children<n id="1" /> will be numerous,p> <p class="poetry">and your descendants<n id="2" /> like the grass of the earth.p>

<p class="poetry">Can you count on<n id="1" /> it to bring in<n id="2" /> your grain,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and gather the grain<n id="4" /> to your threshing floor?<n id="5" />p>

I will greatly multiply your descendants,&#8221; the <sc>Lord&#8217;sc>s angel added,<n id="1" /> &#8220;so that they will be too numerous to count.&#8221;<n id="2" />

But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">You must be certain to tithe<n id="1" /> all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.

<p class="poetry">&#8216;I will give you an eternal dynasty<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and establish your throne throughout future generations.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" /> (Selah)p>

<p class="poetry">The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout.p> <p class="poetry">Yet the harvest will disappear<n id="2" /> in the day of diseasep> <p class="poetry">and incurable pain.p>

<p class="poetry">Don&#8217;t be afraid, for I am with you.p> <p class="poetry">From the east I will bring your descendants;p> <p class="poetry">from the west I will gather you.p>

<p class="poetry">Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and your children<n id="2" /> like its granules.p> <p class="poetry">Their name would not have been cut offp> <p class="poetry">and eliminated from my presence.<n id="3" />p>

I will indeed bless you,<n id="1" /> and I will greatly multiply<n id="2" /> your descendants<n id="3" /> so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession<n id="4" /> of the strongholds<n id="5" /> of their enemies.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;As for me, this is my promise to<n id="1" /> them,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>. &#8220;My spirit, who is upon you, and my words, which I have placed in your mouth, will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and descendants from this time forward,&#8221;<n id="2" /> says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">And I will put hostility<n id="1" /> between you and the womanp> <p class="poetry">and between your offspring and her offspring;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">her offspring will attack<n id="3" /> your head,p> <p class="poetry">and<n id="4" /> you<n id="5" /> will attack her offspring&#8217;s heel.&#8221;<n id="6" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> took him outside and said, &#8220;Gaze into the sky and count the stars &#8211; if you are able to count them!&#8221; Then he said to him, &#8220;So will your descendants be.&#8221;p>

Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Abram, &#8220;Know for certain<n id="1" /> that your descendants will be strangers<n id="2" /> in a foreign country.<n id="3" /> They will be enslaved and oppressed<n id="4" /> for four hundred years.

I will confirm<n id="1" /> my covenant as a perpetual<n id="2" /> covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.<n id="3" />

This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep:<n id="1" /> Every male among you must be circumcised.<n id="2" />

They blessed Rebekah with these words:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Our sister, may you become the mother<n id="2" /> of thousands of ten thousands!p> <p class="poetry">May your descendants possess the strongholds<n id="3" /> of their enemies.&#8221;p>

I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them<n id="1" /> all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.<n id="2" />

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth,<n id="1" /> and you will spread out<n id="2" /> to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another<n id="3" /> using your name and that of your descendants.<n id="4" />