And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born descendants as many as the stars of heaven and as many as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.
In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”
The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven.
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies,
Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered and the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.”
He determines the number of the stars; he gives to all of them their names.
David did not count those below twenty years of age, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as many as the stars of heaven.
and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Your offspring shall be like 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 your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
The angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will surely multiply your offspring so that they cannot be numbered for multitude.”
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if one can count the dust of the earth, your offspring also can be counted.
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