Genesis 15:5

so that I may confirm My covenant between Me and you, And that I may multiply you exceedingly.”

indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.

“And I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and I will give your seed all these lands; and by your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

“Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and You said to them, ‘I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and all this land of which I have spoken I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

‘Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.

“Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons in all, and now Yahweh your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

‘Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan and multiplied his seed and gave him Isaac.

“And Your slave is in the midst of Your people which You have chosen, a numerous people who are too many to be numbered or counted.

But David did not take up a count of those twenty years of age and under, because Yahweh had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.

“You made their sons numerous as the stars of heaven, And You brought them into the land Which You had said for their fathers to enter and possess.

“Look at the heavens and see; And perceive the clouds—they are higher than you.

Who counts the number of the stars; He gives names to all of them.

“Look to Abraham your father And to Sarah who brought you forth through labor pains; When he was but one I called him, Then I blessed him and multiplied him.”

‘As the host of heaven cannot be counted and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the seed of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.’”

In hope against hope he believed, so that he might become a father of many nations according to that which had been spoken, “So shall your seed be.”

Therefore there were born even of one man, and him as good as dead at that, as many as the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.