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 souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

And all the souls that descended from Jacob, were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

Then Joseph sent, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, seventy five souls.

As the stars

The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldst not obey the voice of the LORD thy God.

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now towards heaven, and tell the stars, if thou art able to number them: and he said to him, So shall thy seed be.

These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.

Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

Therefore there sprang even from one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea-shore innumerable.