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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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Genesis 13:16

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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.