²² Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in heaven.^(A)

²⁷ The children of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.^(A)

⁵ He brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”^(A)

⁵ The total number of people born to Jacob was seventy. (Joseph was already in Egypt.)^(A)

¹⁰ The Lord your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars of heaven.^(A)

¹⁴ Then Joseph sent and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five in all;^(A)

²³ You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them into the land that you had told their ancestors to enter and possess.^(A)

⁶² Although once you were as numerous as the stars in heaven, you shall be left few in number because you did not obey the Lord your God.^(A)

⁶² The number of those enrolled was twenty-three thousand, every male one month old and up, for they were not enrolled among the Israelites because there was no allotment given to them among the Israelites.^(A)

⁵¹ This was the number of the Israelites enrolled: six hundred and one thousand seven hundred thirty.