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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 22:17

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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 enemies;