Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

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 speak unto you at that time, saying, I am not able by myself to bear you; 10 Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and lo, ye are to-day as the stars of the heavens for multitude; 11 Jehovah, God of your fathers, is adding to you, as ye are, a thousand times, and doth bless you as He hath spoken to you.

Cross References

Genesis 15:5

and He bringeth him out without, and saith, 'Look attentively, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and count the stars, if thou art able to count them;' and He saith to him, 'Thus is thy seed.'

Deuteronomy 10:22

with seventy persons did thy fathers go down to Egypt, and now hath Jehovah thy God made thee as stars of the heavens for multitude.

Deuteronomy 28:62

and ye have been left with few men, instead of which ye have been as stars of the heavens for multitude, because thou hast not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah thy God.

Genesis 22:17

that blessing I bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thy seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which is on the sea-shore; and thy seed doth possess the gate of his enemies;

Exodus 32:13

'Be mindful of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, Thy servants, to whom Thou hast sworn by Thyself, and unto whom Thou speakest: I multiply your seed as stars of the heavens, and all this land, as I have said, I give to your seed, and they have inherited to the age;'

Genesis 28:14

and thy seed hath been as the dust of the land, and thou hast broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in thee and in thy seed.

Exodus 12:37

And the sons of Israel journey from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, apart from infants;

Numbers 1:46

yea, all those numbered are six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.

1 Chronicles 27:23

And David hath not taken up their number from a son of twenty years and under, for Jehovah said to multiply Israel as the stars of the heavens.

Nehemiah 9:23

And their sons Thou hast multiplied as the stars of the heavens, and bringest them in unto the land that Thou hast said to their fathers to go in to possess.

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