God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.

He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”

I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,

Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.’”

The Lord your God has increased your numbers so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

And when you look up to the sky and see the sun, the moon and the stars—all the heavenly array—do not be enticed into bowing down to them and worshiping things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

and contrary to my command has worshiped other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or the moon or the stars in the sky,

You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

From the heavens the stars fought, from their courses they fought against Sisera.

David did not take the number of the men twenty years old or less, because the Lord had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.

So we continued the work with half the men holding spears, from the first light of dawn till the stars came out.

You made their children as numerous as the stars in the sky, and you brought them into the land that you told their parents to enter and possess.

May its morning stars become dark; may it wait for daylight in vain and not see the first rays of dawn,

He speaks to the sun and it does not shine; he seals off the light of the stars.

“Is not God in the heights of heaven? And see how lofty are the highest stars!

If even the moon is not bright and the stars are not pure in his eyes,

while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

the moon and stars to govern the night; His love endures forever.

He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name.

Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all you shining stars.

before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain;