Genesis 32:12
And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
KJV
Tu locutus es quod benefaceres mihi, et dilatares semen meum sicut arenam maris, quæ præ multitudine numerari non potest.
Vulgate
σὺ δὲ εἶπας Καλῶς εὖ σε ποιήσω, καὶ θήσω τὸ σπέρμα σου ὡς τὴν ἄμμον τῆς θαλάσσης, ἣ οὐκ ἀριθμηθήσεται ἀπὸ τοῦ πλήθους.
LXX
And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
ASV
הַצִּילֵ֥/נִי נָ֛א מִ/יַּ֥ד אָחִ֖/י מִ/יַּ֣ד עֵשָׂ֑ו כִּֽי יָרֵ֤א אָנֹכִי֙ אֹת֔/וֹ פֶּן יָב֣וֹא וְ/הִכַּ֔/נִי אֵ֖ם עַל בָּנִֽים
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
15 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Chr 17:23 — Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
- 1Kgs 4:20 — Judah and Israel were many, as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry.
- 2Sam 7:25 — And now, O LORD God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.
- 2Tim 2:13 — If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
- Gen 13:16 — 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.
- Gen 22:17 — That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enem
- Gen 22:17 — That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enem
- Gen 28:13 — And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
- Gen 28:14 — And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the
- Gen 46:3 — And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation:
- Gen 48:4 — And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
- Heb 6:17 — Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
- Heb 11:12 — Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
- Hos 1:10 — Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my
- Isa 43:26 — Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
- Isa 62:6 — I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
- Job 29:18 — Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
- Josh 11:4 — And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
- Matt 24:35 — Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
- Num 10:29 — And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses’ father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee go
- Titus 1:2 — In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;