Genesis 15:5

New Living Translation

Then the Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up into the sky and count the stars if you can. That’s how many descendants you will have!”

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

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

Genesis 13:16

And I will give you so many descendants that, like the dust of the earth, they cannot be counted!

Genesis 16:10

Then he added, “I will give you more descendants than you can count.”

Genesis 17:2

I will make a covenant with you, by which I will guarantee to give you countless descendants.”

Genesis 22:17

I will certainly bless you. I will multiply your descendants beyond number, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will conquer the cities of their enemies.

Genesis 26:4

I will cause your descendants to become as numerous as the stars of the sky, and I will give them all these lands. And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

Genesis 28:14

Your descendants will be as numerous as the dust of the earth! They will spread out in all directions—to the west and the east, to the north and the south. And all the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your descendants.

Genesis 32:13

Jacob stayed where he was for the night. Then he selected these gifts from his possessions to present to his brother, Esau:

1 Kings 3:8

And here I am in the midst of your own chosen people, a nation so great and numerous they cannot be counted!

1 Chronicles 27:23

When David took his census, he did not count those who were younger than twenty years of age, because the Lord had promised to make the Israelites as numerous as the stars in heaven.

Nehemiah 9:23

You made their descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and brought them into the land you had promised to their ancestors.

Job 35:5

Look up into the sky, and see the clouds high above you.

Psalm 147:4

He counts the stars and calls them all by name.

Exodus 32:13

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You bound yourself with an oath to them, saying, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven. And I will give them all of this land that I have promised to your descendants, and they will possess it forever.’”

Isaiah 51:2

Yes, think about Abraham, your ancestor, and Sarah, who gave birth to your nation. Abraham was only one man when I called him. But when I blessed him, he became a great nation.”

Jeremiah 33:22

And as the stars of the sky cannot be counted and the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of my servant David and the Levites who minister before me.”

Romans 4:18

Even when there was no reason for hope, Abraham kept hoping—believing that he would become the father of many nations. For God had said to him, “That’s how many descendants you will have!”

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has increased your population, making you as numerous as the stars!

Deuteronomy 10:22

When your ancestors went down into Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky!

Hebrews 11:12

And so a whole nation came from this one man who was as good as dead—a nation with so many people that, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, there is no way to count them.

Joshua 24:3

But I took your ancestor Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him into the land of Canaan. I gave him many descendants through his son Isaac.