Genesis 15:5

The Scriptures 1998

And He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward the heavens, and count the stars if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So are your seed.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

“And I shall make you a great nation, and bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing!

Genesis 13:16

“And I shall make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that, if a man could count the dust of the earth, then your seed also could be counted.

Genesis 16:10

And the Messenger of יהוה  said to her, “I am going to increase your seed greatly, too numerous to be counted.”

Genesis 17:2

“And I give My covenant between Me and you, and shall greatly increase you.”

Genesis 22:17

that I shall certainly bless you, and I shall certainly increase your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore, and let your seed possess the gate of their enemies.

Genesis 26:4

“And I shall increase your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I shall give all these lands to your seed. And in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,

Genesis 28:14

“And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall break forth to the west and to the east, to the north and the south. And all the clans of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your seed.

Genesis 32:13

And he spent the night there, and took what came to his hand as a present for Ě

1 Kings 3:8

“And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted.

1 Chronicles 27:23

But Dawiḏ

Nehemiah 9:23

“And You increased their children as the stars of the heavens, and brought them into the land which You had said to their fathers to go in and possess.

Job 35:5

Look to the heavens, and see. And consider the clouds which are higher than you.

Psalm 147:4

He appoints the number of the stars, He gives names to all of them.

Exodus 32:13

“Remember Aḇ

Isaiah 51:2

“Look to Aḇ

Jeremiah 33:22

‘As the host of the heavens is not counted, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I increase the descendants of Dawiḏ

Romans 4:18

who against all expectation did believe, in expectation, so that he should become father of many nations, according to what was said, “So shall your seed be.”

Deuteronomy 1:10

‘יהוה  your Elohim has increased you, and see, you are today as numerous as the stars of the heavens.

Deuteronomy 10:22

“Your fathers went down to Mitsrayim with seventy beings, and now יהוה  your Elohim has made you as numerous as the stars of the heavens.

Hebrews 11:12

And so from one, and him as good as dead, were born as numerous as the stars of the heaven, as countless as the sand which is by the seashore.

Joshua 24:3

‘So I took your father Aḇ