And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and magnify your name, and you shall be blessed.

And I will make your seed like the dust of the earth; if anyone is able to number the dust of the earth, then shall your seed be numbered.

Better is he that begins to help heartily, than he that promises and leads [another] to hope; for a good desire is a tree of life.

Righteous are You, O Lord, that I may make my defense to You: yet I will speak to You [of] judgments. Why [is it] that the way of the ungodly prospers? [And] all that deal very treacherously are flourishing?

Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has a great recompense.

For you have need of endurance, so that having done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

And Abram, having heard that Lot his nephew had been taken captive, numbered his own home-born servants three hundred and eighteen, and pursued after them to Dan.

He that lives wantonly from a child shall be a servant, and in the end shall grieve over himself.

or if a maid-servant should cast out her own mistress, and if a hateful woman should marry a good man.

I acquired servants and maidens, and servants were born to me in the house. Also I had abundant possessions of flocks and herds, beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem.