He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
Deuteronomy 10:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in heaven. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons in all, and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of the heavens for multitude. American Standard Version (1901) Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude. Common English Bible Your ancestors went down to Egypt with a total of seventy people, but now look! The LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the nighttime sky! Catholic Public Domain Version As seventy souls, your fathers descended into Egypt. And now, behold, the Lord your God has multiplied you to be like the stars of heaven." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and, behold, now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven. |
He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”
I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies,
All the persons belonging to Jacob who came into Egypt who were his own offspring, not including the wives of his sons, were sixty-six persons in all.
The children of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.
You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them into the land that you had told their ancestors to enter and possess.
The total number of people born to Jacob was seventy. (Joseph was already in Egypt.)
This was the number of the Israelites enrolled: six hundred and one thousand seven hundred thirty.
The number of those enrolled was twenty-three thousand, every male one month old and up, for they were not enrolled among the Israelites because there was no allotment given to them among the Israelites.
Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five in all;
The Lord your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars of heaven.
May the Lord, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times more and bless you, as he has promised you!
you shall make this response before the Lord your God: ‘A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous.
Although once you were as numerous as the stars in heaven, you shall be left few in number because you did not obey the Lord your God.
Therefore from one person, and this one as good as dead, descendants were born, “as many as the stars of heaven and as the innumerable grains of sand by the seashore.”