Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version 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. New Living Translation 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! English Standard Version Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven. Berean Standard Bible 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. King James Bible 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. New King James Version 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. New American Standard Bible 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. NASB 1995 “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. NASB 1977 “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. Legacy Standard Bible Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons in all, and now Yahweh your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven. Amplified Bible 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. Christian Standard Bible Your ancestors went down to Egypt, seventy people in all, and now the LORD your God has made you numerous, like the stars of the sky. Holman Christian Standard Bible Your fathers went down to Egypt, 70 people in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.” American Standard Version Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Seventy souls, your fathers, went down to Egypt, and now, behold, LORD JEHOVAH your God has multiplied you as the stars in the Heavens. Brenton Septuagint Translation With seventy souls your fathers went down into Egypt; but the Lord thy God has made thee as the stars of heaven in multitude. Contemporary English Version When your ancestors went to live in Egypt, there were only 70 of them. But the LORD has blessed you, and now there are more of you than there are stars in the sky. Douay-Rheims Bible In seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt: and behold now the Lord thy God hath multiplied thee as the stars of heaven. English Revised Version 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation When your ancestors went to Egypt, there were 70 of them. Now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky. Good News Translation When your ancestors went to Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky. International Standard Version Your ancestors went down to Egypt with 70 people, but the LORD your God has now made you as numerous as the stars in the sky." JPS Tanakh 1917 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. Literal Standard Version Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now your God YHWH has made you as [the] stars of the heavens for multitude.” Majority Standard Bible 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. New American Bible Seventy strong your ancestors went down to Egypt, and now the LORD, your God, has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven. NET Bible When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky. New Revised Standard Version Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in heaven. New Heart English Bible Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude. Webster's Bible Translation Thy fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude. World English Bible 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. Young's Literal Translation with seventy persons did thy fathers go down to Egypt, and now hath Jehovah thy God made thee as stars of the heavens for multitude. Additional Translations ... Context A Call to Obedience…21He is your praise and He is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome wonders that your eyes have seen. 22Your 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. Cross References Acts 7:14 Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all. Genesis 15:5 And 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." Genesis 22:17 I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies. Genesis 46:27 And 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. Exodus 1:5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt. Deuteronomy 1:10 The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky. Deuteronomy 26:5 and you are to declare before the LORD your God, "My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous. Treasury of Scripture Your fathers went down into Egypt with three score and ten persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude. Genesis 46:27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten. Exodus 1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already. Acts 7:14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls. as the stars Deuteronomy 1:10 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. Deuteronomy 28:62 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God. Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. Jump to Previous Egypt Heaven Heavens Multitude Numerous Persons Seventy Sky Souls Stars Ten ThreescoreJump to Next Egypt Heaven Heavens Multitude Numerous Persons Seventy Sky Souls Stars Ten ThreescoreDeuteronomy 10 1. God's mercy in restoring the two tablets6. in continuing the priesthood 8. in separating the tribe of Levi 10. in hearkening unto Moses' plea for his people 12. An exhortation to obedience (22) Thy fathers went down.--The simple and natural form of this allusion conveys a strong impression of the truth of the facts. If the marvellous increase of Israel in the time allowed by the sacred narrative presents a difficulty, we must remember that the Bible consistently represents the multiplication as the fulfilment of a Divine promise, and not purely natural. But the testimony of the First Book of Chronicles must not be overlooked. The genealogy of Judah, given in the second and fourth chapters of that book, discloses a very extensive multiplication, a good deal of which must lie within the period of the sojourning in Egypt. The family of Hezron is particularly to be noticed. Of a certain descendant of Simeon it is written (1Chronicles 4:27), "And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply like to the children of Judah." (!) Modern calculations are perhaps not quite adequate to deal with such a rate of increase as this. (See also the Note on Deuteronomy 32:8.) Verse 22. - Among other marvelous acts toward Israel, was one done in Israel itself; they, whoso fathers went down to Egypt only seventy in number (Genesis 46:26, 27), had, notwithstanding the cruel oppression to which they were subjected there, grown to a nation numberless as the stars (cf. Genesis 22:17; Deuteronomy 1:10; Nehemiah 9:23). |
    |