Quotes about Generations
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.
— Genesis 28:14
But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
— Genesis 32:12
The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”
— Genesis 35:12
Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
— Genesis 35:29
Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.
— Genesis 37:3
You shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.
— Genesis 45:10
Jacob took with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, and his daughters and granddaughters—all his offspring.
— Genesis 46:7
And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.
— Genesis 46:27
Joseph said to his father, “They are the sons God has given me in this place.” So Jacob said, “Please bring them to me, that I may bless them.”
— Genesis 48:9
Now Israel’s eyesight was poor because of old age; he could hardly see. Joseph brought his sons to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.
— Genesis 48:10
“I never expected to see your face again,” Israel said to Joseph, “but now God has let me see your children as well.”
— Genesis 48:11
But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.
— Genesis 48:14