Parallel Verses

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

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

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.

Amplified

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

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 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: 10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. 11 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Deuteronomy 28:62

And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.

Genesis 22:17

That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.

Genesis 28:14

And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Exodus 12:37

And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.

Numbers 1:46

Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.

Nehemiah 9:23

Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

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