³ Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, ^(A)as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

¹⁷ I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring ^(A)as the stars of heaven and ^(B)as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess ^(C)the gate of his^[a] enemies,

⁸ and ^(A)I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and ^(B)to bring them up out of that land to a ^(C)good and broad land, a land ^(D)flowing with milk and honey, to the place of ^(E)the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

¹⁴ Your offspring shall be like ^(A)the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and ^(B)your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

^4 (A)I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And ^(B)in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,

⁵ And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and ^(A)number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, ^(B)“So shall your offspring be.”

¹⁷ “But ^(A)as the time of the promise drew near, which God had granted to Abraham, ^(B)the people increased and multiplied in Egypt

¹² Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and ^(A)prolongs his life, yet I know that ^(B)it will be well with ^(C)those who fear God, because they fear before him.

³² You shall be careful therefore to do as the Lord your God has commanded you. ^(A)You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. ^33 (B)You shall walk in all the way that the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live, and ^(C)that it may go well with you, and that you may live long in the land that you shall possess.