Deuteronomy 1:10

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Deuteronomy 1:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible

8 See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”

9 At that time I said to you, “I cannot carry the burden for you alone.

10 The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

11 May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand times over and bless you as He has promised.

12 But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Deuteronomy 10:22

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.

Deuteronomy 28:62

You who were as numerous as the stars in the sky will be left few in number, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God.

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 28:14

Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and east and north and south. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

Exodus 12:37

The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.

Exodus 32:13

Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, to whom You swore by Your very self when You declared, ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land that I have promised, and it shall be their inheritance forever.’”

Numbers 1:46

And all those counted totaled 603,550.

1 Chronicles 27:23

David did not count the men aged twenty or under, because the LORD had said that He would make Israel as numerous as the stars of the sky.

Nehemiah 9:23

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them to the land You had told their fathers to enter and possess.