16 And I will constitute your seed like the dust particles of the earth, so that, if a man could be able to count the dust particles of the earth, then your seed could be numbered.+

17 just as it is written: “I have appointed you a father of many nations.”)+ This was in the sight of the One in whom he had faith, even of God, who makes the dead alive+ and calls* the things that are not as though they were.+