Genesis 15:5
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5 He took him outside and said: Look up at the sky and count the stars, if you can. Just so, he added, will your descendants be.(A)
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Genesis 22:17
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17 I will bless you and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; your descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies,(A)
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Genesis 32:13
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13 You yourself said, ‘I will be very good to you, and I will make your descendants like the sands of the sea, which are too numerous to count.’”(A)
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Exodus 32:13
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13 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and how you swore to them by your own self, saying,(A) ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky; and all this land that I promised, I will give your descendants as their perpetual heritage.’”
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Deuteronomy 10:22
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22 Seventy strong your ancestors went down to Egypt,(A) and now the Lord, your God, has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.
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Daniel 3:36
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36 To whom you promised to multiply their offspring
like the stars of heaven,
or the sand on the shore of the sea.
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