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Deuteronomy 1:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Lord your God has so multiplied you that today you are as numerous as the stars of the sky.

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Your ancestors went down to Egypt, seventy people in all,  and now the Lord your God has made you numerous, like the stars of the sky.


Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God.


Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel #– #you swore to them by yourself  and declared, “I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and will give your offspring all this land that I have promised, and they will inherit it for ever.” ’


I will indeed bless you  and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky  and the sand on the seashore.  Your offspring will possess the city gates of their  enemies.


He took him outside and said, ‘Look at the sky and count the stars, if you are able to count them.’ Then he said to him, ‘Your offspring will be that numerous.’


Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth,  and you will spread out towards the west, the east, the north, and the south. All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.


You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky and brought them to the land you told their ancestors to go in and possess.


All those registered numbered 603,550.


The Israelites travelled from Rameses to Succoth,  about six hundred thousand  able-bodied men on foot, besides their families.


David didn’t count the men aged twenty or under, for the Lord had said he would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.


When it came to rest, he would say: Return, Lord,


May the Lord, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times more, and bless you as he promised you.


‘The Lord had his heart set on you and chose you, not because you were more numerous than all peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.


You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramean.  He went down to Egypt with a few people and resided there as a foreigner.  There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.


Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave birth to you. When I called him, he was only one; I blessed him and made him many.


I made you thrive  like plants of the field.  You grew up and matured and became very beautiful.  Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were stark naked.





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