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 whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt.

All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them.

Then Joseph sent for Jacob his father and all his family, seventy-five persons.

As the stars

The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

And you will become a very small band, though your numbers were like the stars of heaven; because you did not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God.

And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

Those who were numbered of the children of Israel were six hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and thirty.

And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.

So that from one man, who was near to death, came children in number as the stars in heaven, or as the sand by the seaside, which may not be numbered.