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 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.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And He brought him outside [his tent into the starlight] and said, Look now toward the heavens and count the stars–if you are able to number them. Then He said to him, So shall your descendants be. [Heb. 11:12.] American Standard Version (1901) And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. Common English Bible Then he brought Abram outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars if you think you can count them.” He continued, “This is how many children you will have.” Catholic Public Domain Version And he brought him outside, and he said to him, "Take in the heavens, and number the stars, if you can." And he said to him, "So also will your offspring be." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he thought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven, and number the stars, if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be. |
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.
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.
Then the angel of Adonai said to her, “I will bountifully multiply your seed, and they will be too many to count.”
My heart’s desire is to make My covenant between Me and you, and then I will multiply you exceedingly much.”
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.
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,
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.
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.’”
Your servant is amid Your people, whom You have chosen—a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted.
But David did not count those 20 years old and under, because Adonai had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.
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.
Look up at the heavens and see; consider the clouds so high above you.
He determines the number of the stars. He gives them all their names.
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.’”
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.”
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.”
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.”
Adonai your God has multiplied you—and here you are today, like the stars of the heavens in number.
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.
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.
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,