And he brought him forth It seems, early in the morning; and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars: so shall thy seed be 1st, So innumerable, for so the stars seem to a common eye. Abram feared he should have no child at all, but God tells him his descendants should be so many as not to be numbered. 2d, So illustrious, as the stars of heaven for splendour; for to “them pertained the glory,” Romans 9:4. Abram's seed according to the flesh were like the “dust of the earth,” Genesis 13:16, but his spiritual seed are like the stars of heaven.
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Genesis 15:5
5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.