Genesis 15:5

And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”

Cross References (15)

  • Hebrews 11:12 (14)

    And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as th

  • Romans 4:18 (12)

    Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall

  • Deuteronomy 1:10 (11)

    The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

  • Exodus 32:13 (10)

    Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make y

  • Genesis 22:17 (9)

    I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Yo

  • Deuteronomy 10:22 (8)

    Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the

  • Psalms 147:4 (7)

    He determines the number of the stars; He calls them each by name.

  • 1 Chronicles 27:23 (7)

    David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the

  • Jeremiah 33:22 (7)

    As the hosts of heaven cannot be counted and as the sand on the seashore cannot be measured, so too will I multiply the

  • Romans 9:7–8 (6)

    Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring wil

  • Genesis 12:2 (5)

    I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

  • Genesis 28:14 (4)

    Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. A

  • Genesis 26:4 (4)

    I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your

  • Genesis 16:10 (4)

    Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”

  • Genesis 13:16 (3)

    I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offsp