Deuteronomy 10:22
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.”
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Genesis 15:5And he brought him outside, and he said to him, “Take in the heavens, and number the stars, if you can.” And he said to him, “So also will your offspring be.”
Genesis 46:27Now the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in the land of Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who went into Egypt, were seventy.
Numbers 26:51This is the sum of the sons of Israel, who were counted: six hundred thousand and one thousand seven hundred thirty.
Deuteronomy 1:10‘I alone am not able to sustain you. For the Lord, your God, has multiplied you, and you are today like the stars of heaven, very many.
Deuteronomy 26:5And you shall say, in the sight of the Lord your God: ‘The Syrian pursued my father, who descended into Egypt, and he sojourned there in a very small number, and he increased into a great and strong nation and into an innumerable multitude.
Nehemiah 9:23And you multiplied their sons like the stars of heaven. And you led them into the land, about which you had said to their fathers that they would enter and 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 →