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

Counting the two sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.

All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,

So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.

As the stars

The Lord your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

There will be very few of you left, though at one time you were as numerous as the stars in the sky, because you will have disobeyed the Lord your God.

The Lord took him outside and said, "Gaze into the sky and count the stars -- if you are able to count them!" Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be."

These were those numbered of the Israelites, 601,730.

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.

So in fact children were fathered by one man -- and this one as good as dead -- like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand on the seashore.