¹⁷ I will indeed bless you^(A) and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky^(B) and the sand on the seashore.^(C) Your offspring will possess the city gates of their^[a] enemies.^(D)

⁴ I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed^[a] by your offspring,^(A)

¹³ Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel—you swore to them by yourself^(A) and declared, ‘I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and will give your offspring all this land that I have promised, and they will inherit it forever.’”^(B)

¹⁰ The Lord your God has so multiplied you that today you are as numerous as the stars of the sky.^(A)

²² Your ancestors went down to Egypt, seventy people in all,^(A) and now the Lord your God has made you numerous, like the stars of the sky.^(B)

²³ David didn’t count the men aged twenty or under, for the Lord had said he would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.^(A)

¹⁸ He believed, hoping against hope, so that he became the father of many nations^[a](A) according to what had been spoken: So will your descendants be.^[b](B)

¹² Therefore, from one man—in fact, from one as good as dead—came offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and as innumerable as the grains of sand along the seashore.^(A)