Genesis 15:5

The English Standar Version

And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."

Cross References

Hebrews 11:12

Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.

Romans 4:18

In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be."

Deuteronomy 1:10

The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.' "

Genesis 22:17

I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his[4] enemies,

Deuteronomy 10:22

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

Jeremiah 33:22

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me."

Psalm 147:4

He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.

1 Chronicles 27:23

David did not count those below twenty years of age, for the LORD had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven.

Genesis 12:2

And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 28:14

Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 26:4

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,

Genesis 16:10

The angel of the LORD also said to her, "I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude."

Genesis 13:16

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.

Genesis 17:2

that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly."

Joshua 24:3

Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac.

1 Kings 3:8

And your servant is in the midst of your people whom you have chosen, a great people, too many to be numbered or counted for multitude.

Nehemiah 9:23

You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and you brought them into the land that you had told their fathers to enter and possess.

Job 35:5

Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him.

Genesis 32:13

So he stayed there that night, and from what he had with him he took a present for his brother Esau,