OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 13:16

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I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.

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Verse 16. As the dust, an hyperbole, to express a very numerous offspring, which is more exact, if we take in the spiritual children of Abram. Menochius.

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