Genesis 15:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The LORD took him outside and said,“Gaze into the sky and count the stars– if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him,“So will your descendants be.”

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  • Deut 1:10 : 10 The LORD your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.
  • Rom 4:18 : 18 Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement,“so will your descendants be.”
  • Heb 11:12 : 12 So in fact children were fathered by one man– and this one as good as dead– like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.
  • Exod 32:13 : 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them,‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about I will give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’”
  • Gen 22:17 : 17 I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.
  • Ps 147:4 : 4 He counts the number of the stars; he names all of them.
  • Jer 33:22 : 22 I will make the children who follow one another in the line of my servant David very numerous. I will also make the Levites who minister before me very numerous. I will make them all as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sands which are on the seashore.’”
  • Deut 10:22 : 22 When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.
  • 1 Chr 27:23 : 23 David did not count the males twenty years old and under, for the LORD had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.
  • Gen 12:2 : 2 Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.
  • Gen 13:16 : 16 And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.
  • Gen 16:10 : 10 I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the LORD’s angel added,“so that they will be too numerous to count.”
  • Gen 26:4 : 4 I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.
  • Gen 28:14 : 14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. And so all the families of the earth may receive blessings through you and through your descendants.
  • Rom 9:7-8 : 7 nor are all the children Abraham’s true descendants; rather“through Isaac will your descendants be counted.” 8 This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 15:1-4
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    79%

    1The Cutting of the Covenant After these things the LORD’s message came to Abram in a vision:“Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance.”

    2But Abram said,“O Sovereign LORD, what will you give me since I continue to be childless, and my heir is Eliezer of Damascus?”

    3Abram added,“Since you have not given me a descendant, then look, one born in my house will be my heir!”

    4But look, the LORD’s message came to him:“This man will not be your heir, but instead a son who comes from your own body will be your heir.”

  • Gen 13:14-17
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    79%

    14After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram,“Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.

    15I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.

    16And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

    17Get up and walk throughout the land, for I will give it to you.”

  • Gen 22:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.

    18Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.’”

  • Gen 26:3-4
    2 verses
    77%

    3Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.

    4I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.

  • Gen 15:6-8
    3 verses
    77%

    6Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD credited it as righteousness to him.

    7The LORD said to him,“I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”

    8But Abram said,“O Sovereign LORD, by what can I know that I am to possess it?”

  • Gen 28:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13and the LORD stood at its top. He said,“I am the LORD, the God of your grandfather Abraham and the God of your father Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the ground you are lying on.

    14Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. And so all the families of the earth may receive blessings through you and through your descendants.

  • Heb 11:18
    75%

    18God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”

  • Gen 17:19
    75%

    19God said,“No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.

  • Gen 17:4-6
    3 verses
    74%

    4“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

    5No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.

    6I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

  • Gen 16:10
    74%

    10I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the LORD’s angel added,“so that they will be too numerous to count.”

  • Gen 18:18
    74%

    18After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth may receive blessing through him.

  • Rom 4:18
    73%

    18Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement,“so will your descendants be.”

  • Heb 6:14
    73%

    14saying,“Surely I will bless you greatly and multiply your descendants abundantly.”

  • Gen 28:4
    73%

    4May he give you and your descendants the blessing he gave to Abraham so that you may possess the land God gave to Abraham, the land where you have been living as a temporary resident.”

  • Gen 32:12
    73%

    12But you said,‘I will certainly make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand on the seashore, too numerous to count.’”

  • Heb 11:12
    73%

    12So in fact children were fathered by one man– and this one as good as dead– like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.

  • Gen 35:11
    73%

    11Then God said to him,“I am the Sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation– even a company of nations– will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!

  • Gen 17:2
    73%

    2Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.”

  • Gen 17:9
    73%

    9Then God said to Abraham,“As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

  • Acts 7:3
    73%

    3and said to him,‘Go out from your country and from your relatives, and come to the land I will show you.’

  • Gen 12:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1The Obedience of Abram Now the LORD said to Abram,“Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you.

    2Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.

  • Gen 21:12
    72%

    12But God said to Abraham,“Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.

  • Exod 32:13
    72%

    13Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them,‘I will multiply your descendants like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about I will give to your descendants, and they will inherit it forever.’”

  • Job 5:25
    72%

    25You will also know that your children will be numerous, and your descendants like the grass of the earth.

  • Gen 12:7
    72%

    7The LORD appeared to Abram and said,“To your descendants I will give this land.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.