Devine Scripture

Genesis 15:5

Genesis chapter 15 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.4And, behold, the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

v.5This passage

v.6And he believed in Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him for righteousness.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Chronicles 27:23

    But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Jehovah had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of heaven.

  • Deuteronomy 10:22

    Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

  • Genesis 22:17

    that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

  • Hebrews 11:12

    wherefore also there sprang of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the sea-shore, innumerable.

  • Deuteronomy 1:10

    Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

  • Romans 9:7

    neither, because they are Abraham’s seed, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.