Genesis 15:5

Modern English Version

He brought him outside and said, “Look up toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So will your descendants be.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 13:16

I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be numbered.

Genesis 16:10

The angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will multiply your descendants exceedingly so that they will be too many to count.”

Genesis 17:2

And I will make My covenant between you and Me and will exceedingly multiply you.”

Genesis 22:17

I will indeed bless you and I will indeed multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens and as the sand that is on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gate of their enemies.

Genesis 26:4

I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of the heavens and will give your descendants all these lands. By your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and in your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 32:13

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

1 Kings 3:8

And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, so numerous that they cannot be numbered or counted.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David did not take the number from twenty years old and under because the Lord had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of the heavens.

Nehemiah 9:23

Their descendants You increased like the stars of heaven, and You brought them into the land, which You had promised to their fathers that they would enter and possess it.

Job 35:5

Look unto the heavens and see, and behold the clouds that are higher than you.

Psalm 147:4

He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by their names.

Exodus 32:13

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

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for I called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.

Jeremiah 33:22

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the seed of David My servant and the Levites that minister to Me.

Romans 4:18

Against all hope, he believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations according to what was spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy people, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore from one man, who was as good as dead, sprang so many, a multitude as the stars of the sky and innumerable as the sand by the seashore.

Joshua 24:3

I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates, brought him through all the land of Canaan, and gave him many descendants. To him I gave Isaac.