Then Adonai appeared to Abram, and said, “I will give this land to your seed.” So there he built an altar to Adonai, who had appeared to him.
Nehemiah 9:23 - Tree of Life Version 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Their children You also multiplied as the stars of heaven and brought them into the land which You told their fathers they should go in and possess. American Standard Version (1901) Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it. Common English Bible You multiplied their descendants as the stars of heaven. You brought them into the land that you had told their ancestors to enter and possess. Catholic Public Domain Version And you multiplied their sons like the stars of heaven. And you led them into the land, about which you had said to their fathers that they would enter and possess it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thou didst multiply their children as the stars of heaven: and broughtest them to the land concerning which thou hadst said to their fathers, that they should go in and possess it. |
Then Adonai appeared to Abram, and said, “I will give this land to your seed.” So there he built an altar to Adonai, who had appeared to him.
On that day Adonai cut a covenant with Abram, saying, “I give this land to your seed, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River:
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.”
I will give to you and to your seed after you the land where you are an outsider —the whole land of Canaan—as an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”
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.
Live as an outsider in this land and I will be with you and bless you—for to you and to your seed I give all these lands—and I will confirm my pledge that I swore to Abraham your father.
But David did not count those 20 years old and under, because Adonai had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread. So the Egyptians dreaded the presence of Bnei-Yisrael.
Yet Bnei-Yisrael were fruitful, increased abundantly, multiplied and grew extremely numerous—so the land was filled with them.
“You will be left few in number, instead of being like the stars of the sky in number—because you did not listen to the voice of Adonai your God.