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

the 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 and calls them all by their names.

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

neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are all sons, but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

So

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

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if someone could number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

And the angel of the LORD also said unto her, I will multiply thy seed so exceedingly that it shall not be numbered for the multitude.

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 gates of his enemies;

and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt multiply to the west and to the east and to the Aquilon and to the Negev; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy slaves, to whom thou didst sware by thine own self and hast said 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 take it for inheritance for ever.

the 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 with seventy souls, and now the LORD thy God has made thee as the stars of heaven in multitude.

But David did not number those twenty years old and under because the LORD had said he would multiply Israel like to the stars of the heavens.

Who believed to wait against all hope, that he might become the father of many Gentiles, according to that which had been spoken unto him, So shall thy seed be.

Therefore there sprang even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

General references

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

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if someone could number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.