Deuteronomy 10:22
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Your 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.”
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“Your 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.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“with seventy persons did thy fathers go down to Egypt, and now hath Jehovah thy God made thee as stars of the heavens for multitude.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 10:22 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.”
- Genesis 46:26All those belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt—his direct descendants, besides the wives of Jacob’s sons—numbered sixty-six persons.
- Genesis 46:27And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.
- Exodus 1:5The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
- Numbers 26:51These men of Israel numbered 601,730 in all.
- Numbers 26:62The registration of the Levites totaled 23,000, every male a month old or more; they were not numbered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.
- Deuteronomy 1:10The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.
- Deuteronomy 1:11May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.
- Deuteronomy 26:5and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
- 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.
- 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.
- Acts 7:14Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.
- Hebrews 11:12And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
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