Genesis 15:5

Easy To Read Version

Then God led Abram outside. God said, “Look at the sky. See the many stars. There are so many you can’t count them. In the future, your family will be like that.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will build a great nation from you. I will bless you and make your name famous. People will use your name to bless other people.

Genesis 13:16

I will make your people as many as the dust of the earth. If people could count all the dust on earth, then they could count your people.

Genesis 16:10

The Angel of the Lord also said to Hagar, “From you will come many people. There will be so many people that they cannot be counted.”

Genesis 17:2

If you do this, I will prepare an agreement between us. I will promise to make your people a great nation.”

Genesis 22:17

I will truly bless you. I will give you many, many descendants, [126] as many as the stars in the sky. There will be as many people as sand on the seashore. And your people will live in cities that they take from their enemies.

Genesis 26:4

I will make your family as many as the stars of heaven. And I will give all these lands to your family. Through your descendants, [152] every nation on earth will be blessed.

Genesis 28:14

You will have many, many descendants. [163] They will be as many as the pieces of dust on earth. They will spread east and west, north and south. All the families on earth will be blessed because of you and your descendants.

Genesis 32:13

Jacob stayed in that place for the night. Jacob prepared some things to give to Esau as a gift.

1 Kings 3:8

I, your servant, am here among your chosen people. There are many, many people. There are too many to count. {So a ruler must make many decisions among them.}

1 Chronicles 27:23

\{David decided to count the men in Israel.\} There were very many people because God promised to make the people of Israel as many as the stars in the sky. So David only counted the men that were 20 years old and older.

Nehemiah 9:23

You made their descendants {\cf2\super [53]} \par as many as the stars in the sky.\par You brought them to the land\par you promised to give their ancestors. {\cf2\super [54]} \par They went in and took that land.\par

Job 35:5

Job, look up at the sky.\par Look up at the clouds\par that are higher than you.\par

Psalm 147:4

God counts the stars\par and knows the name\par of each and every one.\par

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel (Jacob). Those men served you. And you used your name to make a promise to them. You said: ‘I will make your people as many as the stars in the sky. I will give your people all this land like I promised. This land will be theirs forever.’”

Isaiah 51:2

Abraham is your father, and you should look at him. You should look at Sarah—the woman that gave birth to you. Abraham was alone when I called him. Then I blessed him, and he began a great family. Many, many people came from him.”

Jeremiah 33:22

But I will give many descendants to my servant David and to the family group of Levi. They will be as many as the stars in the sky—no person can count all those stars. And they will be as many as the pieces of sand on the seashore—no person can count those pieces of sand.”

Romans 4:18

There was no hope \{that Abraham {\cf2\super [45]} would have children\}. But Abraham believed God and continued hoping. And that is why he became the father of many nations. Like God told him, “You will have many descendants (children).” {\cf2\super [46]}

Deuteronomy 1:10

And now, there are even more of you! The Lord your God has added more and more people, so that today you are as many as the stars in the sky!

Deuteronomy 10:22

When your ancestors [64] went down into Egypt, there were only 70 people. Now the Lord your God has made you many, many people—as many as the stars in the sky.

Hebrews 11:12

This man was so old that he was almost dead. But from that one man came as many descendants {\cf2\super [146]} (people) as there are stars in the sky. So many people came from that one man that they are like grains of sand on the seashore.

Joshua 24:3

But I, the Lord, took your father Abraham out of the land on the other side of the River. I led him through the land of Canaan and gave him many, many children. I gave Abraham his son named Isaac.