Deuteronomy 1:10
1:10 The
Lord your God has increased your population
1 to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.
2
Deuteronomy 28:62
28:62 There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky,
3 because you will have disobeyed
4 the
Lord your God.
Genesis 15:5
15:5 The
Lord 5 took him outside and said, “Gaze into the sky and count the stars – if you are able to count them!” Then he said to him, “So will your descendants be.”
Numbers 26:51
Total Number and Division of the Land
26:51 These were those numbered of the Israelites, 601,730. 6
Numbers 26:62
26:62 Those of them who were numbered were 23,000, all males from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the Israelites; no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.
Nehemiah 9:23
9:23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.
Hebrews 11:12
11:12 So in fact children
7 were fathered by one man – and this one as good as dead –
like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand 8 on the seashore.
9
1 tn Heb “multiplied you.”
2 tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
3 tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term שָׁמַיִם (shamayim) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
4 tn Heb “have not listened to the voice of.”
5 tn Heb “he”; the referent (the Lord) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 sn This number shows only a slightly smaller total in the second census; the first was 603,550.
7 tn Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.
8 tn Grk a collective “the sand.”
9 sn An allusion to Gen 22:17 (which itself goes back to Gen 15:5).