Genesis 15:5

Tree of Life Version

He took him outside and said, “Look up now, at the sky, and count the stars—if you are able to count them.” Then He said to him, “So shall your seed be.”

Cross References

Hebrews 11:12

So from one—and him as good as dead—were fathered offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and as uncountable as the sand on the seashore.

Romans 4:18

In hope beyond hope, he trusted that he would become the father of many nations according to what was spoken—“So shall your descendants be.”

Deuteronomy 1:10

Adonai your God has multiplied you—and here you are today, like the stars of the heavens in number.

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 seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they will inherit it forever.’”

Genesis 22:17

I will richly bless you and bountifully multiply your seed like the stars of heaven, and like the sand that is on the seashore, and your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down to Egypt with 70 persons, and now Adonai your God has made you like the stars of the heavens in number.

Jeremiah 33:22

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David My servant, and the Levites who minister to Me.”

Psalm 147:4

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

1 Chronicles 27:23

But David did not count those 20 years old and under, because Adonai had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.

Genesis 12:2

My heart’s desire is to make you into a great nation, to bless you, to make your name great so that you may be a blessing.

Genesis 28:14

Your seed will be as the dust of the land, and you will burst forth to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed—and in your seed.

Genesis 26:4

I will multiply your seed like the stars of the sky and I will give your seed all these lands. And in your seed all the nations of the earth will continually be blessed,

Genesis 16:10

Then the angel of Adonai said to her, “I will bountifully multiply your seed, and they will be too many to count.”

Genesis 13:16

I will make your seed like the dust of the earth so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your seed could also be counted.

Genesis 17:2

My heart’s desire is to make My covenant between Me and you, and then I will multiply you exceedingly much.”

Joshua 24:3

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

1 Kings 3:8

Your servant is amid Your people, whom You have chosen—a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted.

Nehemiah 9:23

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven, and You brought them into the land that You told their ancestors to enter and inherit.

Job 35:5

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

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you. For when I called him, he was but one, then I blessed him and multiplied him.”

Genesis 32:13

You Yourself said, ‘I will most certainly do good with you, and will make your seed like the sand of the sea that cannot be counted because of its abundance.’”