16 And I will constitute your seed like the dust particles of the earth, so that, if a man could be able to count the dust particles of the earth, then your seed could be numbered.+

5 He now brought him outside and said: “Look up, please, to the heavens and count the stars, if you are possibly able to count them.”+ And he went on to say to him: “So your seed will become.”+

5 And your name will not be called Aʹbram* anymore, and your name must become Abraham,* because a father of a crowd of nations I will make you.

17 I shall surely bless you and I shall surely multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens and like the grains of sand that are on the seashore;+ and your seed will take possession of the gate* of his enemies.+

14 saying: “Assuredly in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply you.”+