Genesis 12:2
12:2 Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you,
and I will make your name great,
so that you will exemplify divine blessing.
Genesis 13:16
13:16 And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.
Genesis 16:10
16:10 I will greatly multiply your descendants,” the
Lord’s angel added,
“so that they will be too numerous to count.”
Genesis 22:17
22:17 I will indeed bless you,
and I will greatly multiply
your descendants
so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession
of the strongholds
of their enemies.
Genesis 28:14
28:14 Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth,
and you will spread out
to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another
using your name and that of your descendants.
Exodus 32:13
32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, ‘I will multiply your descendants
like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about
I will give to your descendants,
and they will inherit it forever.’”
Deuteronomy 1:10
1:10 The
Lord your God has increased your population
to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.
Deuteronomy 10:22
10:22 When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the
Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.
Deuteronomy 10:1
The Opportunity to Begin Again
10:1 At that same time the Lord said to me, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.
Deuteronomy 27:23
27:23 ‘Cursed is the one who has sexual relations with his mother-in-law.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
Romans 4:18
4:18 Against hope Abraham
believed
in hope with the result that he became
the father of many nations according to the pronouncement,
“
so will your descendants be.”
Hebrews 11:12
11:12 So in fact children
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 on the seashore.