Parallel Verses

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."

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.

King James 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.

Holman 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.

A Conservative Version

Thy fathers went down into Egypt, in souls, seventy. And now LORD thy God has made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

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.

Amplified

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.

Bible in Basic English

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.

Darby Translation

With seventy souls thy fathers went down into Egypt; and now Jehovah thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Julia Smith Translation

With seventy souls thy fathers went down to Egypt; and now Jehovah set thee as the stain of the heavens for multitude.

King James 2000

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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

With [only] seventy persons your ancestors went down to Egypt, but now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the heaven {with respect to multitude}.

Modern King James verseion

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons. And now Jehovah your God has made you as the stars of the heavens for multitude.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thy fathers went down into Egypt with seventy souls, and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven in multitude.

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 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.

The Emphasized Bible

As seventy souls, went thy fathers down to Egypt, - and, now, Yahweh thy God hath made thee like the stars of the heavens for multitude.

Webster

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.

Youngs 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.

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

מצרים 
Mitsrayim 
Usage: 681

with threescore and ten
שׁבעים 
Shib`iym 
Usage: 91

נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

and now the Lord

Usage: 0

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

thee as the stars
כּוכב 
Kowkab 
Usage: 37

of heaven
שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

References

Easton

Fausets

Morish

Context Readings

Detailed Stipulations

21 He is the one you are to praise, because he is, your God who carried out those great and awesome things for you that you witnessed. 22 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."



Cross References

Genesis 15:5

Then the LORD took him outside. "Look up at the sky and count the stars if you can!" he said. "Your descendants will be that numerous."

Genesis 46:27

Joseph had two sons born to him in Egypt, and all of Jacob's household who went to Egypt numbered 70.

Deuteronomy 1:10

The LORD your God greatly multiplied your numbers, and today you are like the stars in the sky.

Exodus 1:5

All those who descended from Jacob totaled 75 persons. Now Joseph was already in Egypt.

Deuteronomy 28:62

Because you will not have obeyed the LORD your God, very few of you will be left instead of you being as numerous as the stars in the heavens.

Nehemiah 9:23

"You multiplied their descendants like the stars in heaven and brought them to the land about which you told their ancestors to enter and possess.

Acts 7:14

Then Joseph invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come to him in Egypt 75 persons in all.

Numbers 26:51

The total of those numbered among the Israelis was 601,730.

Numbers 26:62

All of those individuals numbered 23,000. No male from the age of a month and above was numbered among the Israelis because no inheritance was to be assigned to them among the Israelis.

Hebrews 11:12

Abraham was as good as dead, yet from this one man came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

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