He brought him outside and said, Look now at the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them. And He said to him, So shall your seed be.
that blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the lip of the sea. And your Seed shall possess the gate of His enemies.
And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your Seed.
But David did not take the number of them from the son of twenty years and under, because Jehovah had said He would increase Israel like the stars of the heavens.
You also multiplied their sons like the stars of the heavens and brought them into the land which You had promised to their fathers, to go in and possess it.
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and You spoke to them, I will multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens, and all this land which I have said, I will give to your seed. And they shall possess it forever.
As a myriad, as a field shoot, I have given you, and you are grown and are great. And you come in the ornament of ornaments. Your breasts are formed, and your hair is grown, yet you were naked and bare.
And you shall speak and say before Jehovah your God, My father was a perishing Aramean! And he went down to Egypt and sojourned there with few men, and lived there, and became a nation there, great, mighty ones, even many.
And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the heavens for multitude, because you would not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.