14 Your offspring shall be like the ^fdust of the earth, and you shall ^gspread abroad ^hto the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and ⁱin you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they ^lspread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.