Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 15:5 : 5 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.”
  • 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.
  • Deut 28:62 : 62 There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, because you will have disobeyed the LORD your God.
  • 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.
  • 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.’”
  • Num 1:46 : 46 And all those numbered totaled 603,550.
  • 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.
  • Exod 12:37 : 37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men on foot, plus their dependents.
  • 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.
  • Neh 9:23 : 23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.