Job 5:25

Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.

I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.

Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”

Therefore as many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as innumerable as the sand which is by the sea shore, were fathered by one man, and him as good as dead.

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.

that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.

even by the God of your father, who will help you, by the Almighty, who will bless you, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ”

He will love you, bless you, and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your livestock and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.

Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.

You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

His offspring will be mighty in the land. The generation of the upright will be blessed.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.

Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.

The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”

He counts the number of the stars. He calls them all by their names.

Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the ship, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples,

Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed.

The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

God saw the children of Israel, and God was concerned about them.

I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.

Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.

Yahweh will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your body, in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you.

The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock will be cursed.

But Yahweh was gracious to them, and had compassion on them, and had respect for them, because of his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, and he didn’t cast them from his presence as yet.

But David didn’t take the number of them from twenty years old and under, because Yahweh had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the sky.

There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.

The righteous shall be glad in Yahweh, and shall take refuge in him. All the upright in heart shall praise him!

“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.

In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.

Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

As the army of the sky can’t be counted, and the sand of the sea can’t be measured; so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me.’ ”

I will establish my covenant with you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh;

“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will also take some of the lofty top of the cedar, and will plant it. I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’ ”

to show mercy toward our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,

Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”

God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.

The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, in addition to children.

“ ‘I will have respect for you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.

all those who were counted were six hundred three thousand five hundred fifty.

one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;

Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!

You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, when you do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.

You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring, and gave him Isaac.

Judah and Israel were numerous as the sand which is by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking and making merry.

This was the numbering of them according to their fathers’ houses: From Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him three hundred thousand mighty men of valor;

Then I answered them, and said to them, “The God of heaven will prosper us. Therefore we, his servants, will arise and build; but you have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.”

Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

Your wife will be as a fruitful vine in the innermost parts of your house, your children like olive plants around your table.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

until the Spirit is poured on us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is considered a forest.

Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send out the feet of the ox and the donkey.

It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon’s glory will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh’s glory, the excellence of our God.

‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’

I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, and send down his roots like Lebanon.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.

who will speak to you words by which you will be saved, you and all your house.’

For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s farming, God’s building.

For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.