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Genesis 28:14

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12 And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.

13 And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

15 Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

16 When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”

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BSB
Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
KJV
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
WEB
Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.
ASV
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. And in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
DARBY
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
BLB
And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall break forth to the west, and east, and north, and south. And all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your seed.
ÅB
Og dine etterkommere skal bli som støvet på jorden, og du skal utbrede deg mot vest og mot øst og mot nord og mot syd, og i deg og i dine etterkommere skal alle jordens slekter velsignes
OTB
Dine etterkommere skal bli som jordens støv, og du skal spre deg mot vest, øst, nord og sør. Alle folk på jorden skal bli velsignet gjennom deg og din ætt.
B1930
Og din ætt skal bli som støvet på jorden, og du skal utbrede dig mot vest og mot øst og mot nord og mot syd, og i dig og i din ætt skal alle jordens slekter velsignes

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Genesis 12:3

    I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you; and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”

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  • Genesis 18:18

    Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

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  • Genesis 22:18

    And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

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  • Genesis 26:4

    I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,

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  • Genesis 13:16

    I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

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  • Acts 3:25

    And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

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  • Galatians 3:8

    The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”

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  • Genesis 13:14

    After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,

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