Genesis 15:5

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he thought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven, and number the stars, if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.

Cross References

Hebrews 11:12

For which cause there sprung even from one (and him as good as dead) as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

Romans 4:18

Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So shall thy seed be.

Deuteronomy 1:10

I alone am not able to bear you: for the Lord your God hath multiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thy own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven; and this whole land that I have spoken of I will give to you seed; and you shall possess it for ever.

Genesis 22:17

I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the seashore. Thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.

Deuteronomy 10:22

In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and, behold, now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven.

Jeremiah 33:22

As the stars of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea be measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant and the Levites my ministers.

1 Chronicles 27:23

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.

Genesis 12:2

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name: and thou shalt be blessed.

Genesis 28:14

And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth: Thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: AND IN THEE AND THY SEED ALL THE TRIBES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED.

Genesis 26:4

And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 16:10

And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Genesis 13:16

And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: if any man be able to number the dust of the earth, he shall be able to number thy seed also.

Genesis 17:2

And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

Joshua 24:3

And I took your father Abraham from the borders of Mesopotamia: and brought him into the land of Chanaan: and I multiplied his seed:

1 Kings 3:8

And thy servant is in the midst of the people which thou hast chosen, an immense people, which cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

Nehemiah 9:23

And thou didst multiply their children as the stars of heaven: and broughtest them to the land concerning which thou hadst said to their fathers, that they should go in and possess it.

Job 35:5

Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.

Isaiah 51:2

Look unto Abraham your father and to Sara that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.

Genesis 32:13

And when he had slept there that night, he set apart, of the things which he had, presents for his brother Esau.