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Secrets of Heaven #1609

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1609. Genesis 13:16. "And I will make your seed like the dust of the earth, in that if anyone can count the dust of the earth, your seed too will be counted."

I will make your seed like the dust of the earth means multiplying beyond measure. In that if anyone can count the dust of the earth, your seed too will be counted, means a positive assertion.

  
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The Bible

 

Exodus 32:13

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13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.