Genesis 15:5

New American Standard Bible 2020

And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

And I will make you into a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing;

Genesis 13:16

I will make your descendants as plentiful as the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can count the dust of the earth, then your descendants could also be counted.

Genesis 16:10

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

Genesis 17:2

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

Genesis 22:17

indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand, which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

Genesis 26:4

I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and will give your descendants all these lands; and by your descendants all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth 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 who are too many to be numbered or counted.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David did not count those twenty years of age and under, because the Lord had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.

Nehemiah 9:23

“You made their sons as numerous as the stars of heaven, And You brought them into the land Which You had told their fathers to enter and possess.

Job 35:5

“Look at the heavens and see; And look at the clouds—they are higher than you.

Psalm 147:4

He counts the number of the stars; He gives names to all of them.

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 of which I have spoken I will give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”

Isaiah 51:2

“Look to Abraham your father And to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain; When he was only one I called him, Then I blessed him and multiplied him.”

Jeremiah 33:22

As the heavenly lights cannot be counted, and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of My servant David and the Levites who serve Me.’ ”

Romans 4:18

In hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations according to that which had been spoken, “So shall your descendants be.”

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons in all, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore even from one man, and one who was as good as dead at that, there were born descendants who were just as the stars of heaven in number, and as the innumerable grains of sand along the seashore.

Joshua 24:3

Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants and gave him Isaac.