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Deuteronomy 10:22

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

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And Joseph’s sons who were born to him in Egypt: two persons. All those of Jacob’s household who came to Egypt: seventy   persons.


The total number of Jacob’s descendants  was seventy;  , Joseph was already in Egypt.


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.’


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


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.


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.


Joseph invited his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five people in all,


These registered Israelite men numbered 601,730.


Therefore, from one man #– #in fact, from one as good as dead #– #came offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and as innumerable as the grains of sand along the seashore.


Those registered were 23,000, every male one month old or more; they were not registered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.


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.


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.


The total number of persons belonging to Jacob #– #his direct descendants,  not including the wives of Jacob’s sons #– #who came to Egypt: sixty-six.


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





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