Genesis 15:5

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Summary

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.

Tell

So

General references

Genesis 12:2

Genesis 13:16

Hebrews 6:15

Bible References

Tell

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

He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by names.

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister to me.

nor, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children, rather, In Isaac a seed will be called for thee.

So

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and be thou a blessing.

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth. So that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then may thy seed also be numbered.

And the agent of LORD said to her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the seashore, and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies,

And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shall 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.

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swore by thine own self, and said to them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven. And all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they

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

Thy fathers went down into Egypt, in souls, seventy. And now LORD thy God has made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

But David did not take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because LORD had said he would increase Israel like the stars of heaven.

Who, against hope, believed in hope, in order for him to become father of many nations according to that which was spoken, So thy seed will be.

And therefore from one man, and these things having become deadened, were begotten as the stars of the heaven for multitude, and as the sand of the seashore, countless.

General references

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great, and be thou a blessing.

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth. So that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then may thy seed also be numbered.

And this way, having patiently endured, he obtained the promise.