Genesis 15:5

New American Bible - revised edition

He took him outside and said: Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so, he added, will your descendants be.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you; I will 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; if anyone could count the dust of the earth, your descendants too might be counted.

Genesis 16:10

I will make your descendants so numerous,” added the Lord’s angel, “that they will be too many to count.”

Genesis 17:2

Between you and me I will establish my covenant, and I will multiply you exceedingly.

Genesis 22:17

I will bless you and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; your descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies,

Genesis 26:4

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and in your descendants all the nations of the earth will find blessing—

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and through them you will spread to the west and the east, to the north and the south. In you and your descendants all the families of the earth will find blessing.

Genesis 32:13

You yourself said, ‘I will be very good to you, and I will make your descendants like the sands of the sea, which are too numerous to count.’”

1 Kings 3:8

I, your servant, among the people you have chosen, a people so vast that it cannot be numbered or counted.

1 Chronicles 27:23

David did not count those who were twenty years of age or younger, for the Lord had promised to multiply Israel like the stars of the heavens.

Nehemiah 9:23

You made their children as numerous as the stars of the heavens, and you brought them into the land which you had commanded their ancestors to enter and possess.

Job 35:5

Look up to the skies and see; behold the heavens high above you.

Psalm 147:4

He numbers the stars, and gives to all of them their names.

Exodus 32:13

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and how you swore to them by your own self, saying, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky; and all this land that I promised, I will give your descendants as their perpetual heritage.’”

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth; Though he was but one when I called him, I blessed him and made him many.

Jeremiah 33:22

Just as the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be counted, so I will multiply the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.

Romans 4:18

He believed, hoping against hope, that he would become “the father of many nations,” according to what was said, “Thus shall your descendants be.”

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord, your God, has made you numerous, and now you are as numerous as the stars of the heavens.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Seventy strong your ancestors went down to Egypt, and now the Lord, your God, has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Hebrews 11:12

So it was that there came forth from one man, himself as good as dead, descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sands on the seashore.

Joshua 24:3

But I brought your father Abraham from the region beyond the River and led him through the entire land of Canaan. I made his descendants numerous, and gave him Isaac.