Genesis 32:12
Good News Translation
Remember that you promised to make everything go well for me and to give me more descendants than anyone could count, as many as the grains of sand along the seashore."

New Revised Standard Version
Yet you have said, ‘I will surely do you good, and make your offspring as the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted because of their number.’”

Contemporary English Version
But you have promised that I would be a success and that someday it will be as hard to count my descendants as it is to count the grains of sand along the seashore.

New American Bible
You yourself said, ‘I will be very good to you, and I will make your descendants like the sands of the sea, which are too numerous to count.’ ”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou didst say, that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou didst say, that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

thou.

Genesis 32:6 And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying: We came to Esau, thy brother, and behold he cometh with speed to meet thee with four hundred men.

Exodus 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thy own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will give to your seed, and you shall possess it for ever:

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?

1 Samuel 15:29 But the triumpher in Israel will not spare, and will not be moved to repentance: for he is not a man that he should repent.

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass: but my words shall not pass.

2 Timothy 2:13 If we believe not, he continueth faithful, he cannot deny himself.

Titus 1:2 Unto the hope of life everlasting, which God, who lieth not, hath promised before the times of the world:

Hebrews 6:17 Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath:

I will.

Genesis 28:13-15 And the Lord leaning upon the ladder saying to him: I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: The land, wherein thou sleepest, I will give to thee and to thy seed. . . .

Genesis 46:3,4 God said to him: I am the most mighty God of thy father; fear not, go down into Egypt, for I will make a great nation of thee there. . . .

Context
Jacob's Fear of Esau
11Deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am greatly afraid of him; lest perhaps he come, and kill the mother with the children. 12Thou didst say, that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.13And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the things which he had, presents for his brother Esau,…
Cross References
Hebrews 11:12
For which cause there sprung even from one (and him as good as dead) as the stars of heaven in multitude and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

Genesis 22:17
I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 28:14
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and IN THEE and thy seed, all the tribes of the earth SHALL BE BLESSED.

1 Kings 4:20
Juda and Israel were innumerable, as the sand of the sea in multitude; eating and drinking, and rejoicing.

Hosea 1:10
And the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, that is without measure, and shall not be numbered. And it shall be in the place where it shall be said to them: You are not my people: it shall be said to them: Ye are the sons of the living God.

Genesis 32:11
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