Deuteronomy 10:22
Thy fathers went down into Egypt, in souls, seventy. And now LORD thy God has made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
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Genesis 15:5And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to him, So shall thy seed be.
Genesis 46:27And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were nine (LXX)souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt, were seventy-five (LXX/NT).
Numbers 26:51These are those who were numbered of the sons of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred and thirty.
Deuteronomy 1:10LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Deuteronomy 26:5And thou shall answer and say before LORD thy God, My father was a Syrian ready to perish, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number. And he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Nehemiah 9:23Their sons thou also multiplied as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land concerning which thou said to their fathers that they should go in to possess it.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 10:13-22
Exhortation to Obedience. ( b. c. 1451.) 12 And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, 13 To keep the commandments of the Lord , and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? 14 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord 's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. 15 Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to… Read the whole commentary →