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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

 

Hebrews 11:12

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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.