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 persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came to Egypt [were] seventy.

And {all those who descended from Jacob} were seventy individuals, and Joseph was in Egypt.

So Joseph sent [and] summoned his father Jacob and all [his] relatives, seventy-five persons in [all].

As the stars

Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and look; you [are] today as the stars of the heaven {in number}.

And you shall remain {only a few people} in place of [the fact] you were [formerly] as the stars of heaven as far as number [is concerned], because you did not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.

And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward the heavens and count the stars if you are able to count them." And he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."

These [were] the ones counted of the {Israelites}, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.

You made their children numerous like the stars of the heavens and brought them to the land that you told their ancestors to enter in order to take possession.

And therefore these were fathered from one man, and [he] being as good as dead, as the stars of heaven in number and like the innumerable sand by the shore of the sea.