⁵ Then He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward heaven, and ^(A)count the ^(B)stars if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, ^(C)“So shall your ^(D)descendants be.”

¹⁷ blessing I will ^(A)bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants ^(B)as the stars of the heaven ^(C)and as the sand which is on the seashore; and ^(D)your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.

²² As ^(A)the host of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I ^(B)multiply the descendants of David My servant and the ^(C)Levites who minister to Me.’ ”

²⁶ Moreover I will ^[a]make ^(A)a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and ^(B)multiply them, and I will set My ^(C)sanctuary in their midst forevermore.

⁴ who said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying: ^(A)‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.