Deuteronomy 1:10

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Summary

Deuteronomy 1:10

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

Your god

General references

Genesis 13:16

Numbers 11:14

Bible References

Your god

Your fathers went down into Egypt with three score and ten persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.

And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

And he brought him forth outside, and said, Look now toward heaven, and count the stars, if you be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall your descendants be.

That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies;

And your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, besides children.

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said unto them, I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.

Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like the stars of the heavens.

Their children also you multiplied as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land, concerning which you had promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

General references

And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall your descendants also be numbered.

I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.