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.

Bible References

With threescore

Genesis 46:27
And the sons of Joseph which were born to him in Egypt, two souls: to the house of Jacob coming to Egypt, seventy.
Exodus 1:5
And these will be all the souls that came out of the thigh of Jacob, seventy souls: and Joseph was in Egypt
Acts 7:14
And Joseph having sent, called for his father Jacob, and all his kindred, in seventy-five souls.

As the stars

Deuteronomy 1:10
Jehovah your God multiplied you, and behold, you this day as the stars of the heavens for multitude.
Deuteronomy 28:62
And ye were left few in extension, instead of which ye were as the stars of the heavens for multitude, because thou heardst not to the voice of Jehovah thy God.
Genesis 15:5
And he will bring him forth without, and will say, Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if thou shalt be able to count them: and he will say to him, So shall be thy seed.
Numbers 26:51
These the reviewings of the sons of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
Nehemiah 9:23
And their sons thou didst multiply as the stars of the heavens, and thou wilt bring them to the land which thou saidst to their fathers to come in to possess
Hebrews 11:12
Wherefore also from one were they born, and these of him having been dead, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sand near the lip of the sea innumerable.