The <sc>Lordsc> your God has increased your population<n id="1" /> to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.<n id="2" />

When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the <sc>Lordsc> your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.<n id="1" />p>

I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them<n id="1" /> all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.<n id="2" />

There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky,<n id="1" /> because you will have disobeyed<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

<p class="bodytext">David did not count the males twenty years old and under, for the <sc>Lordsc> had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.

I will indeed bless you,<n id="1" /> and I will greatly multiply<n id="2" /> your descendants<n id="3" /> 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<n id="4" /> of the strongholds<n id="5" /> of their enemies.

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel your servants, to whom you swore by yourself and told them, &#8216;I will multiply your descendants<n id="1" /> like the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken about<n id="2" /> I will give to your descendants,<n id="3" /> and they will inherit it forever.&#8217;&#8221;