Genesis 13:16

16 I'll make your descendants like dust - counting your descendants will be as impossible as counting the dust of the Earth.

Genesis 13:16 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 13:16

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth
An hyperbolical expression denoting the great multitude of Abram's posterity, as they were in the days of Solomon, and as they will be in the latter day; and especially as this may respect all the spiritual seed of Abram, Jews and Gentiles, and as they will be in the spiritual reign of Christ, see ( Hosea 1:10 Hosea 1:11 ) ; so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy
seed be numbered;
but as it is impossible to do the one, so the other is not practicable, see ( Numbers 23:10 ) .

Genesis 13:16 In-Context

14 After Lot separated from him, God said to Abram, "Open your eyes, look around. Look north, south, east, and west.

15 Everything you see, the whole land spread out before you, I will give to you and your children forever.

16 I'll make your descendants like dust - counting your descendants will be as impossible as counting the dust of the Earth.

17 So - on your feet, get moving! Walk through the country, its length and breadth; I'm giving it all to you."

18 Abram moved his tent. He went and settled by the Oaks of Mamre in Hebron. There he built an altar to God.