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.
All the souls belonging to Jacob coming into Egypt, those springing from his loins, besides the wives of the sons of Jacob, all the souls were sixty-six.
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.
And their numbered ones were twentythree thousand, all males, from a son of a month and upward. For they were not counted among the sons of Israel, because there was no possession given them among the sons of Israel.
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.
Therefore, even from one were generated seed, and these of one being as good as dead, even “as the stars of the heaven” in their fullness, and countless as sand by the lip of the sea”. Gen. 15:5; 22:17