Parallel Verses

Amplified

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and look, today you are as numerous as the stars of heaven.

New American Standard Bible

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.

King James Version

The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Holman Bible

The Lord your God has so multiplied you that today you are as numerous as the stars of the sky.

International Standard Version

The LORD your God greatly multiplied your numbers, and today you are like the stars in the sky.

A Conservative Version

LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

American Standard Version

Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Bible in Basic English

The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

Darby Translation

Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Julia Smith Translation

Jehovah your God multiplied you, and behold, you this day as the stars of the heavens for multitude.

King James 2000

The LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and look; you [are] today as the stars of the heaven {in number}.

Modern King James verseion

Jehovah your God has multiplied you, and, behold, today you are as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For the LORD your God hath multiplied you: so that ye are this day as the stars of heaven in number.'

NET Bible

The Lord your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

New Heart English Bible

The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.

The Emphasized Bible

Yahweh your God hath multiplied you, and here ye are to-day, like the stars of the heavens for multitude.

Webster

The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

World English Bible

Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.

Youngs Literal Translation

Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and lo, ye are to-day as the stars of the heavens for multitude;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

you, and, behold, ye are this day
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

as the stars
כּוכב 
Kowkab 
Usage: 37

of heaven
שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

Verse Info

Context Readings

Historical Prologue

9 “I spoke to you at that time, saying, ‘I am not able to bear the burden of you alone. 10 The Lord your God has multiplied you, and look, today you are as numerous as the stars of heaven. 11 May the Lord, the God of your fathers, add to you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, just as He has promised you!

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

And the Lord brought Abram outside [his tent into the night] and said, “Look now toward the heavens and count the stars—if you are able to count them.” Then He said to him, “So [numerous] shall your descendants be.”

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy persons [in all], and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Deuteronomy 28:62

Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, you who were as numerous as the stars of heaven shall be left few in number.

Genesis 22:17

indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies [as conquerors].

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel (Jacob), Your servants to whom You swore [an oath] by Yourself, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants shall be as [countless as] the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and the east and the north and the south; and all the families (nations) of the earth shall be blessed through you and your descendants.

Exodus 12:37

Now the Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides [the women and] the children.

Numbers 1:46

all who were numbered were 603,550.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David did not count those twenty years of age and under, for the Lord had said he would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.

Nehemiah 9:23


“You made their children as numerous as the stars of heaven,
And You brought them into the land
Which You told their fathers to enter and possess.

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