Deuteronomy 10:22
Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.
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Genesis 15:5And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.
Genesis 46:27And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt.
Numbers 26:51Those who were numbered of the children of Israel were six hundred and one thousand, seven hundred and thirty.
Deuteronomy 1:10The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.
Deuteronomy 26:5And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:
Nehemiah 9:23And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.
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 →