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

Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and look; you [are] today as the stars of the heaven {in number}.

[He] counts [the] number of the stars; he gives names to all of them.

As the host of heaven cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will make numerous the offspring of David my servant and the Levites [who] minister [to] me.'"

nor [are they] all children because they are descendants of Abraham, but "In Isaac will your descendants be named."

So

And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great. And you will be a blessing.

I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth which, if anyone were able to count the dust of the earth, your descendants would be [so] counted.

And the angel of Yahweh said to her, "{I will greatly multiply} your offspring, so that they cannot be counted for [their] abundance."

that I will certainly bless you and greatly multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the shore of the sea. And your offspring will take possession of the gate of his enemies.

Your descendants shall be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, and to the east, and to the north and to the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and through your descendants.

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by yourself, and you told them, 'I will multiply your offspring like the stars of the heavens, and all this land that I promised I will give to your offspring, and they will inherit [it] forever.'"

Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and look; you [are] today as the stars of the heaven {in number}.

With [only] seventy persons your ancestors went down to Egypt, but now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the heaven {with respect to multitude}.

And David did not {take a census of those twenty years old or under} because Yahweh promised to make Israel more numerous than the stars of heaven.

who against hope believed in hope, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was said, "so will your descendants be."

And therefore these were fathered from one man, and [he] being as good as dead, as the stars of heaven in number and like the innumerable sand by the shore of the sea.

General references

And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great. And you will be a blessing.

I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth which, if anyone were able to count the dust of the earth, your descendants would be [so] counted.

And so, [by] persevering, he obtained the promise.