Nehemiah 9:23

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

The Lord appeared to Abram and said: To your descendants I will give this land. So Abram built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.

Genesis 15:18

On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: To your descendants I give this land, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Great River, the Euphrates,

Genesis 15:5

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.

Genesis 17:8

I will give to you and to your descendants after you the land in which you are now residing as aliens, the whole land of Canaan, as a permanent possession; and I will be their God.

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 26:3

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I will give all these lands, in fulfillment of the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

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.

Exodus 1:12

Yet the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians began to loathe the Israelites.

Exodus 1:7

But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific. They multiplied and became so very numerous that the land was filled with them. The Oppression.

Deuteronomy 28:62

You who were numerous as the stars of the heavens will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord, your God. Exile.