Deuteronomy 10:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

With threescore

Genesis 46:27

Exodus 1:5

Acts 7:14

As the stars

Bible References

With threescore

and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All the persons of the house of Jacob [including Jacob, and Joseph and his sons], who came into Egypt, were seventy.

All the descendants of Jacob were seventy people; Joseph was [already] in Egypt.

Then Joseph sent and invited Jacob his father and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five persons in all.

As the stars

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and look, today you are as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, you who were as numerous as the stars of heaven shall be left few in number.

And the Lord brought Abram outside [his tent into the night] and said, “Look now toward the heavens and count the stars—if you are able to count them.” Then He said to him, “So [numerous] shall your descendants be.”

This was the [total] number of the [male] Israelites, 601,730 [twenty years old and upward who were able to go to war].

“You made their children as numerous as the stars of heaven,
And You brought them into the land
Which You told their fathers to enter and possess.

So from one man, though he was [physically] as good as dead, were born as many descendants as the stars of heaven in number, and innumerable as the sand on the seashore.