Deuteronomy 1:10

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“The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.”

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BSBPD

“The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and lo, ye <FI>are<Fi> to-day as the stars of the heavens for multitude;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Deuteronomy 1:10 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 15:5And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
  2. Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
  3. Genesis 28:14Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
  4. Exodus 12:37The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
  5. Exodus 32:13Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”
  6. Numbers 1:46And all those counted totaled 603,550.
  7. Deuteronomy 10:22Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
  8. Deuteronomy 28:62You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
  9. 1 Chronicles 27:23David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.
  10. Nehemiah 9:23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
  11. Ezekiel 16:7I made you thrive like a plant of the field. You grew up and matured and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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