Genesis 15:5

Legacy Standard Bible

And He brought him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So shall your seed be.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing;

Genesis 13:16

And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your seed can also be numbered.

Genesis 16:10

Moreover, the angel of Yahweh said to her, “I will greatly multiply your seed so that they will be too many to be counted.”

Genesis 17:2

so that I may confirm My covenant between Me and you, And that I may multiply you exceedingly.”

Genesis 22:17

indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.

Genesis 26:4

And I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and I will give your seed all these lands; and by your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

Genesis 28:14

And your seed will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

Genesis 32:13

So he spent the night there. Then he took from what he had with him a present for his brother Esau:

1 Kings 3:8

And Your slave is in the midst of Your people which You have chosen, a numerous people who are too many to be numbered or counted.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David did not take up a count of those twenty years of age and under, because Yahweh had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.

Nehemiah 9:23

“You made their sons numerous as the stars of heaven, And You brought them into the land Which You had said for their fathers to enter and possess.

Job 35:5

“Look at the heavens and see; And perceive the clouds—they are higher than you.

Psalm 147:4

Who counts the number of the stars; He gives names to all of them.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and You said to them, ‘I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”

Isaiah 51:2

“Look to Abraham your father And to Sarah who brought you forth through labor pains; When he was but one I called him, Then I blessed him and multiplied him.”

Jeremiah 33:22

As the host of heaven cannot be counted and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the seed of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.’ ”

Romans 4:18

In hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations according to that which had been spoken, “So shall your seed be.”

Deuteronomy 1:10

Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons in all, and now Yahweh your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore there were born even of one man, and him as good as dead at that, as many as the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.

Joshua 24:3

Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan and multiplied his seed and gave him Isaac.