⁵ And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens and ^(A)count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “^(B)So shall your ^[a]descendants be.”

¹² Therefore even from one man, and ^(A)one who was as good as dead ^[a]at that, there were born descendants who were ^(B)just as the stars of heaven in number, and as the innumerable grains of sand along the seashore.