And he brought him forth outside, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said to him, So shall your descendents be.
That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your descendents as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is on the sea shore; and your descendents shall possess the gate of their enemies;
Their children also you multiplied as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land, concerning which you had promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
And those that were numbered of them were twenty three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
Therefore sprang there even from one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.