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.
And I will make your descendents as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall your descendents also be numbered.
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;
And I will make your descendents multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to your descendents all these countries; and in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
And your descendents shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in you and in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
But David did not take the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the heavens.
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.
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, I will multiply your descendents as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give to your descendents, and they shall inherit it forever.
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the descendents of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.
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.
And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendents, and gave him Isaac.