Genesis 15:5

New Century Version

Then God led Abram outside and said, “Look at the sky. There are so many stars you cannot count them. Your descendants also will be too many to count.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you. I will make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.

Genesis 13:16

I will make your descendants as many as the dust of the earth. If anyone could count the dust on the earth, he could count your people.

Genesis 16:10

The angel also said, “I will give you so many descendants they cannot be counted.”

Genesis 17:2

I will make an agreement between us, and I will make you the ancestor of many people.”

Genesis 22:17

I will surely bless you and give you many descendants. They will be as many as the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, and they will capture the cities of their enemies.

Genesis 26:4

I will give you many descendants, as hard to count as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. Through your descendants all the nations on the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be as many as the dust of the earth. They will spread west and east, north and south, and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

Genesis 32:13

Jacob stayed there for the night and prepared a gift for Esau from what he had with him:

1 Kings 3:8

I, your servant, am here among your chosen people, and there are too many of them to count.

1 Chronicles 27:23

The Lord had promised to make the Israelites as many as the stars in the sky. So David only counted the men who were twenty years old and older.

Nehemiah 9:23

You made their children as many as the stars in the sky, and you brought them into the land that you told their ancestors to enter and take over.

Job 35:5

Look up at the sky and see the clouds so high above you.

Psalm 147:4

He counts the stars and names each one.

Exodus 32:13

Remember the men who served you—Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. You promised with an oath to them and said, ‘I will make your descendants as many as the stars in the sky. I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised them, and it will be theirs forever.’ ”

Isaiah 51:2

Look at Abraham, your ancestor, and Sarah, who gave birth to your ancestors. Abraham had no children when I called him, but I blessed him and gave him many descendants.

Jeremiah 33:22

But I will give many descendants to my servant David and to the family group of Levi who serve me in the Temple. They will be as many as the stars in the sky that no one can count. They will be as many as the grains of sand on the seashore that no one can measure.”

Romans 4:18

There was no hope that Abraham would have children. But Abraham believed God and continued hoping, and so he became the father of many nations. As God told him, “Your descendants also will be too many to count.”

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has made you grow in number so that there are as many of you as there are stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 10:22

There were only seventy of your ancestors when they went down to Egypt, and now the Lord your God has made you as many as the stars in the sky.

Hebrews 11:12

This man was so old he was almost dead, but from him came as many descendants as there are stars in the sky. Like the sand on the seashore, they could not be counted.

Joshua 24:3

But I, the Lord, took your ancestor Abraham from the other side of the river and led him through the land of Canaan. And I gave him many children, including his son Isaac.