Deuteronomy 10:22
When your forefathers went to Egypt there were only seventy of them in total, but now God has increased your numbers so much that there are as many of you as there are stars in the sky.
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Genesis 15:5The Lord took Abram outside and said to him, “Look up at the sky. See if you can count the stars! That's how many descendants you will have!”
Genesis 46:27Including the two sons Joseph had in Egypt, the total number of Jacob's family who were in Egypt was seventy.
Numbers 26:51The total of all those counted was 601,730.
Deuteronomy 1:10The Lord your God has increased your numbers so much that today there are as many of you as there are stars in the sky.
Deuteronomy 26:5Then this is what you are to publicly declare before the Lord your God, “My father was an Aramean who moved from place to place. There were only a few of them when he and his family went to live in Egypt. But they became a large and powerful nation.
Nehemiah 9:23You made their descendants as countless as the stars of heaven, and led them to the land you had promised their fathers they would enter and possess.
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 →