Genesis 13:16 · WEB
“I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.”
— Genesis 13:16
Era
Patriarchs (~2000 BC)
Emotion
grateful
Type
narrative
Emotional genome
Comfort power
Quotability
Memorability
Crisis relevance
Standalone
Promise of GodProphecymultiplicationabundanceimpossibility
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