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Genesis 12:7 '''12:7. And the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him: To thy seed will I give this land. And he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.'''

Genesis 15:5 '''15:5. And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars if you can. And he said to him: So shall your seed be.'''

Genesis 22:17 22:17. I will bless thee, and I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 26:4 26:4. And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

Exodus 32:13 32:13. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you sworest by your own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will give to your seed, and you shall possess it for ever:

Deuteronomy 1:10 1:10. I alone am not able to bear you: for the Lord your God has multiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of heaven, for multitude.

Deuteronomy 10:22 10:22. In seventy souls your fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now the Lord your God has multiplied you as the stars of heaven.

Deuteronomy 13:17 13:17. And there shall nothing of that anathema stick to your hand: that the Lord may turn from the wrath of his fury, and may have mercy on you, and multiply you as he swore to your fathers,

1 Chronicles 27:23 27:23. But David would not number them from twenty years old and under: because the Lord had said that He would multiply Israel like the stars of heaven.

Hebrews 11:12 11:12. For which cause there sprung even from one (and him as good as dead) as the stars of heaven in multitude and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

James 2:23 2:23. And the scripture was fulfilled, saying, "Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him to justice, and he was called the friend of God."

Date:1896