Objects
stars
The stars are used repeatedly to picture the future number of Abraham's descendants. Moses recalls that oath after the golden calf: offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven.
Category
Objects
First mention
Genesis 15:5
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3
Genesis 15, 22Exodus 32Promise imagery
Scripture references
- Genesis 15:5
Look up at the sky and count the stars if you can. Just so will your descendants be.
- Genesis 22:17
make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven...
- Exodus 32:13
Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom you swore by your very self and made this promise: "I shall make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and this whole country of which I have spoken, I shall give to your descendants, and it will be their heritage for ever."