Deuteronomy 10:22
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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.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.
In other translations
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.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.
Hebrew words
בְּשִׁבְעִיםbeshiv'im<in> seventyH7657נֶפֶשׁnefeshperson[s]H5315יָרְדוּyareduthey went downH3381אֲבֹתֶיךָ'avoteikhaancestors yourH1מִצְרָיְמָהּmitzrayemahEgypt towardsH4714וְעַתָּהve'atahand nowH6258שָׂמְךָsamekhahe has made youH7760יְהוָהyahwehYahwehH3068אֱלֹהֶיךָ'eloheikhaGod yourH430כְּכוֹכְבֵיkechokhveilike [the] stars ofH3556הַשָּׁמַיִםhashamayimthe heavensH8064לָרֹב׃larofor multitudeH7230
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Related verses
- Genesis 46:27And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.And 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 1:5And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
- Genesis 15:5And 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.And 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.”
- Deuteronomy 1:10The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.
- Nehemiah 9:23Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
- Deuteronomy 28:62And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the Lord thy God.You 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.
- Numbers 26:51These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.These men of Israel numbered 601,730 in all.
- Acts 7:14Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.
- Hebrews 11:12Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.And 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.
- Numbers 26:62And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.The 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.
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