22 Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all,(A) and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.(B)

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22 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.

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27 With the two sons[a] who had been born to Joseph in Egypt,(A) the members of Jacob’s family, which went to Egypt, were seventy[b] in all.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 46:27 Hebrew; Septuagint the nine children
  2. Genesis 46:27 Hebrew (see also Exodus 1:5 and note); Septuagint (see also Acts 7:14) seventy-five

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.

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He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars(A)—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring[a] be.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 15:5 Or seed

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.

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The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy[a] in all;(A) Joseph was already in Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 1:5 Masoretic Text (see also Gen. 46:27); Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint (see also Acts 7:14 and note at Gen. 46:27) seventy-five

And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

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10 The Lord your God has increased(A) your numbers(B) so that today you are as numerous(C) as the stars in the sky.(D)

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10 The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

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14 After this, Joseph sent for his father Jacob and his whole family,(A) seventy-five in all.(B)

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14 Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

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23 You made their children as numerous as the stars in the sky,(A) and you brought them into the land that you told their parents to enter and possess.

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23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

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62 You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky(A) will be left but few(B) in number, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

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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.

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51 The total number of the men of Israel was 601,730.(A)

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51 These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.

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12 And so from this one man, and he as good as dead,(A) came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.(B)

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12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

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62 All the male Levites a month old or more numbered 23,000.(A) They were not counted(B) along with the other Israelites because they received no inheritance(C) among them.(D)

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62 And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.

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