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.’
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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 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.’
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.
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.
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.
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.
The total number of Jacob’s descendants was seventy; , Joseph was already in Egypt.
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.
Joseph invited his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five people in all,
The Lord your God has so multiplied you that today you are as numerous as the stars of the sky.
May the Lord, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times more, and bless you as he promised you.
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.
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.
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.