Deuteronomy 1:10
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New International Version (©2011)
The LORD your God has increased your numbers so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The LORD your God has increased your population, making you as numerous as the stars!

English Standard Version (©2001)
The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The LORD your God has so multiplied you that today you are as numerous as the stars of the sky.

International Standard Version (©2012)
The LORD your God greatly multiplied your numbers, and today you are like the stars in the sky.

NET Bible (©2006)
The LORD your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The LORD your God has made your population increase so that you are now as numerous as the stars in the sky.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
The LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

American King James Version
The LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

American Standard Version
Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I alone am not able to bear you: for the Lord your God hath multiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of heaven, for multitude.

Darby Bible Translation
Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

English Revised Version
The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

World English Bible
Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.

Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and lo, ye are to-day as the stars of the heavens for multitude;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:9-18 Moses reminds the people of the happy constitution of their government, which might make them all safe and easy, if it was not their own fault. He owns the fulfilment of God's promise to Abraham, and prays for the further accomplishment of it. We are not straitened in the power and goodness of God; why should we be straitened in our own faith and hope? Good laws were given to the Israelites, and good men were to see to the execution of them, which showed God's goodness to them, and the care of Moses.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 10. - Notwithstanding the cruel oppression to which they were subjected in Egypt, the Israelites had so increased in numbers that they went out of the house of their bondage a mighty host. Ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude (cf. Genesis 15:5; Genesis 22:17). God had promised to Abraham that his seed should be as the stars of heaven for multitude; and Moses here reminds the people that this promise had been fulfilled. This is hardly to be regarded as the utterance of hyperbole. When God gave the premise to Abraham it was to the stars as seen by the patriarch, not as actually existing in the immensity of space, that reference was made; and as the number of stars which can be taken in with the naked eye does not exceed 3000, and as Israel at this time numbered more than 600,000, counting only the adult males (Numbers 2:32), - it might be literally said of them that they had been multiplied as the stars of heaven. The comparison, however, imported nothing more than that their numbers were very great.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The Lord your God hath multiplied you,.... Which was the reason why he could not bear them, or the government of them was too heavy for him, because they were so numerous, and the cases brought before him to decide were so many:

and, behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude; whereby it appeared that the promise to Abraham was fulfilled, Genesis 15:5, they were now 600,000 men fit for war, besides women and children, and those under age, which must make the number of them very large.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

10. ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude—This was neither an Oriental hyperbole nor a mere empty boast. Abraham was told (Ge 15:5, 6) to look to the stars, and though they "appear" innumerable, yet those seen by the naked eye amount, in reality, to no more than three thousand ten in both hemispheres. The Israelites already far exceeded that number, being at the last census above six hundred thousand [Nu 26:51]. It was a seasonable memento, calculated to animate their faith in the accomplishment of other parts of the divine promise.

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Moses Appoints Leaders
9And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone: 10The LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. 11(The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you!) …

Genesis 15:5 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the sky and count the stars--if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
Genesis 22:17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,
Exodus 32:13 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: 'I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.'"
Numbers 10:36 Whenever it came to rest, he said, "Return, LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel."
Deuteronomy 1:11 May the LORD, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times and bless you as he has promised!
Deuteronomy 7:7 The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.
Deuteronomy 10:22 Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
Deuteronomy 26:5 Then you shall declare before the LORD your God: "My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous.
Deuteronomy 28:62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left but few in number, because you did not obey the LORD your God.
Psalm 107:38 he blessed them, and their numbers greatly increased, and he did not let their herds diminish.
Isaiah 51:2 look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I called him he was only one man, and I blessed him and made him many.
Ezekiel 16:7 I made you grow like a plant of the field. You grew and developed and entered puberty. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, yet you were stark naked.