Parallel Verses

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.'

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 then and said: 'I am not able to bear the burden of you alone. 10 The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number. 11 Jehovah the God of your fathers will make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he promised you!

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

He brought him outside and said: Look toward heaven and count the stars. Are you able to count them? He continued: So shall your descendants be.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers traveled to Egypt, seventy persons in all. Now Jehovah your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the universe (physical heavens).

Deuteronomy 28:62

You were at one time as numerous as the stars in the sky. But only a few of you will be left. This is because you did not obey Jehovah your God.

Genesis 22:17

I will certainly bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of their enemies' cities.

Exodus 32:13

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. You took an oath, swearing on yourself. You told them: 'I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky. I will give to your descendants all the land I spoke of. It will be their long lasting possession.'

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be like the dust on the earth. You will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. Every family on earth will be blessed through you and through your descendants.

Exodus 12:37

The Israelites left Rameses to go to Succoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, plus all the women and children.

Numbers 1:46

was six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

1 Chronicles 27:23

David did not count those less than twenty years old, because Jehovah promised that the people of Israel would be as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Nehemiah 9:23

You made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven. You took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.

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