And he brought him forth outside, and said, Look now toward heaven, and count the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall your descendants be.
Deuteronomy 1:10 - King James 2000 The LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 the LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the heavens for multitude. American Standard Version (1901) Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. Common English Bible The LORD your God has multiplied your number—you are now as countless as the stars in the sky. Catholic Public Domain Version 'I alone am not able to sustain you. For the Lord, your God, has multiplied you, and you are today like the stars of heaven, very many. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I alone am not able to bear you: for the Lord your God hath multiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. |
And he brought him forth outside, and said, Look now toward heaven, and count the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall your descendants be.
That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies;
And your descendants shall be as 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 in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the heavens.
Their children also you multiplied as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land, concerning which you had promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and permits not their cattle to decrease.
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, besides children.
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said unto them, I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.
Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
I have caused you to multiply as the bud of the field, and you have increased and become great, and you are come to excellent beauty: your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown, yet you were naked and bare.
Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel.
(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more than you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!)
Your fathers went down into Egypt with three score and ten persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.
And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, An Aramean ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people: