Catholic Public Domain Version
"You did say that you would do well by me, and that you would expand my offspring like the sand of the sea, which, because of its multitude, cannot be numbered.” "
— Genesis 32:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.”
“And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude. ”
“You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"”
“But you said,‘I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’””
“Thou didst say, that thou wouldst do well by me, and multiply my seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.”
“And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.”
“And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.”
And Jacob said: “God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Lord who said to me: ‘Return to your land, and to the place of your nativity, and I will do well for you.’
I am less than any of your compassions and your truth, which you have fulfilled to your servant. With my staff I crossed over this Jordan. And now I go back with two companies.
Rescue me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am very afraid of him, lest perhaps he may come and strike down the mother with the sons.
You did say that you would do well by me, and that you would expand my offspring like the sand of the sea, which, because of its multitude, cannot be numbered.”
And when he had slept there that night, he separated, from the things that he had, gifts for his brother Esau:
two hundred she-goats, twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,
thirty milking camels with their young, forty cows, and twenty bulls, twenty she-donkeys, and ten of their young.