² And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

⁵ And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

²³ But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the Lord had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.