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

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 15:5 Or seed

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

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18 “I thought, ‘I will die in my own house,
    my days as numerous as the grains of sand.(A)

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18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

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