Genesis 15:5

New International Version

He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”

Cross References

Hebrews 11:12

And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

Romans 4:18

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has increased your numbers so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Exodus 32:13

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.’ ”

Genesis 22:17

I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Jeremiah 33:22

I will make the descendants of David my servant and the Levites who minister before me as countless as the stars in the sky and as measureless as the sand on the seashore.’ ”

Psalm 147:4

He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.

1 Chronicles 27:23

David did not take the number of the men twenty years old or less, because the Lord had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Genesis 12:2

“I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

Genesis 26:4

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,

Genesis 16:10

The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”

Genesis 13:16

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.

Genesis 17:2

Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.”

Joshua 24:3

But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac,

1 Kings 3:8

Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number.

Nehemiah 9:23

You made their children as numerous as the stars in the sky, and you brought them into the land that you told their parents to enter and possess.

Job 35:5

Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.

Isaiah 51:2

look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was only one man, and I blessed him and made him many.

Genesis 32:13

He spent the night there, and from what he had with him he selected a gift for his brother Esau: