He took him outside and said, “Look up now, at the sky, and count the stars—if you are able to count them.” Then He said to him, “So shall your seed be.”
Deuteronomy 10:22 - Tree of Life Version Your fathers went down to Egypt with 70 persons, and now Adonai your God has made you like the stars of the heavens in number. 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 up now, at the sky, and count the stars—if you are able to count them.” Then He said to him, “So shall your seed be.”
I will richly bless you and bountifully multiply your seed like the stars of heaven, and like the sand that is on the seashore, and your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
All the people belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt—those coming from his loins (not counting the wives of Jacob’s sons)—the tally of all the people was 66.
The sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt was a tally of two people. The tally of all the people belonging to Jacob’s house who came to Egypt was 70.
You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven, and You brought them into the land that You told their ancestors to enter and inherit.
The souls that came out of the line of Jacob numbered 70 in all, while Joseph was already in Egypt.
The male Levites a month old and upward totaled 23,000, though they were not included among Bnei-Yisrael, since He did not give them an inheritance among Bnei-Yisrael.
So Joseph sent and called for Jacob and all his relatives—seventy-five persons.
Adonai your God has multiplied you—and here you are today, like the stars of the heavens in number.
“‘May Adonai, God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times as many as you are, and may He bless you just as He has promised you!
“Then you are to respond before Adonai your God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as an outsider, few in number. But there he became a great nation—mighty and numerous.
“You will be left few in number, instead of being like the stars of the sky in number—because you did not listen to the voice of Adonai your God.
So from one—and him as good as dead—were fathered offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven, and as uncountable as the sand on the seashore.