1 Chronicles 27:23
"But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens."
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- Genesis 15:5
"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."
Read in chapter → - Hebrews 11:12
"Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable."
Read in chapter → - 1 Chronicles 21:2
"And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it."
Read in chapter → - Numbers 1:18
"And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls."
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