Genesis 15:5

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

The LORD brought him outside, and said, *Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.* He said to Avram, *So shall your seed be.*

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

Genesis 13:16

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.

Genesis 16:10

The angel of the LORD said to her, *I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude.*

Genesis 17:2

I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.*

Genesis 22:17

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

Genesis 26:4

I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

Genesis 28:14

Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 32:13

He lodged there that night, and took from that which he had with him, a present for Esav, his brother:

1 Kings 3:8

Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David didn't take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because the LORD had said he would increase Yisra'el like the stars of the sky.

Nehemiah 9:23

Their children also multiplied you as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you did say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

Job 35:5

Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

Psalm 147:4

He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yisra'el, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'*

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Avraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.

Jeremiah 33:22

As the army of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me.

Romans 4:18

Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, *So will your seed be.*

Deuteronomy 1:10

The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

Joshua 24:3

I took your father Avraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Kena`an, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Yitzchak.