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THE FIRST BOOK OF THE
CHRONICLES
CHAPTER 27
  23 ¶ But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the Lord had said he would increase Israel like to the astars of the heavens.

Footnotes
23a
Gen. 15: 5.
  5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and atell the bstars, if thou be able to cnumber them: and he said unto him, So shall thy dseed be.
D&C 132: 30 (30-31).
  30 aAbraham received promises concerning his seed, and of the fruit of his loins—from whose bloins ye are, namely, my servant Joseph—which were to continue so long as they were in the world; and as touching Abraham and his seed, out of the world they should continue; both in the world and out of the world should they continue as innumerable as the cstars; or, if ye were to count the sand upon the seashore ye could not number them.