Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.
- NASB Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons in all, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.
- NLT When your ancestors went down into Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky!
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Quick answer
Israel's ancestors entered Egypt as seventy persons, but God multiplied them like the stars. He faithfully kept His promise to Abraham.
Overview
Moses contrasts the small number who went to Egypt with the vast nation God had now made them. This fulfilled the promise to Abraham that his descendants would be as the stars. God's faithfulness to multiply His people foreshadows the innumerable multitude redeemed in Christ from every nation.
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Cross-references · 10
- Gen 46:27And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.
- Exod 1:5The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
- Gen 15:5And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
- Deut 1:10The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.
- Deut 28:62You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
- Neh 9:23You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.
- Acts 7:14Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.
- Num 26:51These men of Israel numbered 601,730 in all.
- Num 26:62The registration of the Levites totaled 23,000, every male a month old or more; they were not numbered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.
- Heb 11:12And so from one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
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