Parallel Verses

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 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.

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.'

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 also said to you at that time, "I am no longer able to sustain you by myself. 10 The Lord your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky. 11 Indeed, may the Lord, the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you just as he said he would!

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

The Lord took him outside and said, "Gaze into the sky and count the stars -- if you are able to count them!" Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be."

Deuteronomy 10:22

When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.

Deuteronomy 28:62

There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, because you will have disobeyed the Lord your God.

Genesis 22:17

I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, 'I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about I will give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.'"

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using your name and that of your descendants.

Exodus 12:37

The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men on foot, plus their dependants.

Numbers 1:46

And all those numbered totaled 603,550.

1 Chronicles 27:23

David did not count the males twenty years old and under, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Nehemiah 9:23

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.

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