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.”+

22 Just as the army of the heavens cannot be counted, neither the sand of the sea be measured,+ so I shall multiply the seed of David my servant and the Levites who are ministering to me.’”+