And He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward the heavens, and count the stars if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So are your seed.”
1 Chronicles 27:23 - The Scriptures 2009 But Dawiḏ did not take the number of those twenty years old and under, because יהוה had said He would increase Yisra’ĕl like the stars of the heavens. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But David did not number those under twenty years of age, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as the stars of the heavens. American Standard Version (1901) But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Jehovah had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of heaven. Common English Bible But David didn’t count those younger than 20 years of age, because the LORD had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky. Catholic Public Domain Version But David was not willing to number them from twenty years old and under. For the Lord had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But David would not number them from twenty years old and under: because the Lord had said that he would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven. |
And He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward the heavens, and count the stars if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So are your seed.”
that I shall certainly bless you, and I shall certainly increase your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore, and let your seed possess the gate of their enemies.
And I shall increase your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I shall give all these lands to your seed. And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,”
And again the displeasure of יהוה burned against Yisra’ĕl, and moved Dawiḏ against them to say, “Go, number Yisra’ĕl and Yehuḏah.”
and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second new moon. And they declared their ancestry by clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, each one head by head.
And so from one, and him as good as dead, were born as numerous as the stars of the heaven, as countless as the sand which is by the seashore.