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."
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- 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 → - Romans 4:18
"Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be."
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 1:10
"The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude."
Read in chapter → - Exodus 32:13
"Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 22:17
"That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;"
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 33:22
"As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me."
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 10:22
"Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude."
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 147:4
"He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names."
Read in chapter → - Romans 9:7
"Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called."
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