Deuteronomy 1:10

The NET Bible®

The Lord your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the Lorde your God hath multiplied you: so that you be this day as the starres of heauen in number.

Easy-to-Read Version
And now, there are even more of you. The Lord your God has added more and more people, so that today you are as many as the stars in the sky.

Revised Standard Version
the LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

World English Bible
Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.

King James Version (1611)
The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and beholde, you are this day as the starres of heauen for multitude.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for the LORDE youre God hath increased you, so that this daye ye are as ye starres of heauen in multitude.

American Standard Version
Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Bible in Basic English
The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

Update Bible Version
Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and see, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Webster's Bible Translation
The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and behold, ye [are] this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

New King James Version
The LORD your God has multiplied you, and here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord our God has blessed us, and so now there are as many of us as there are stars in the sky.

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai your God has multiplied your numbers, so that there are as many of you today as there are stars in the sky.

Darby Translation
Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The Lord your God hath multiplied you: and beholde, ye are this day as the starres of heauen in nomber:

George Lamsa Translation
The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven in multitude.

Good News Translation
The Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Amplified Bible
'The LORD your God has multiplied you, and look, today you are as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
the LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.--

New Living Translation
The Lord your God has increased your population, making you as numerous as the stars!

New Life Bible
The Lord your God has made you become many people. Now you are as many as the stars of heaven.

New Revised Standard
The Lord your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The Lord your God has multiplied you, and, behold, ye are to-day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

English Revised Version
The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yahweh your God hath multiplied you, and here ye are to-day, like the stars of the heavens for multitude.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I alone am not able to bear you: for the Lord your God hath multiplied you, and you are this day as the stars of heaven, for multitude.

Lexham English Bible
Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and look; you are today as the stars of the heaven in number.

Literal Translation
Jehovah your God has multiplied you, and, behold, today you are as the stars of heaven for multitude.

English Standard Version
The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven.

New American Standard Bible
'The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.

New Century Version
The Lord your God has made you grow in number so that there are as many of you as there are stars in the sky.

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord your God has so multiplied you that today you are as numerous as the stars of the sky.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and ye ben ful many to dai, as the sterris of heuene;

Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and lo, ye [are] to-day as the stars of the heavens for multitude;

Contextual Overview

⁹ I also said to you at that time, "I am no longer able to sustain you by myself. ¹⁰ The Lord your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky. ¹¹ Indeed, may the Lord , the God of your ancestors, make you a thousand times more numerous than you are now, blessing you just as he said he would! ¹² But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife? ¹³ Select wise and practical men, those known among your tribes, whom I may appoint as your leaders." ¹⁴ You replied to me that what I had said to you was good. ¹⁵ So I chose as your tribal leaders wise and well-known men, placing them over you as administrators of groups of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens, and also as other tribal officials. ¹⁶ I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens and judge fairly, whether between one citizen and another or a citizen and a resident foreigner. ¹⁷ They must not discriminate in judgment, but hear the lowly and the great alike. Nor should they be intimidated by human beings, for judgment belongs to God. If the matter being adjudicated is too difficult for them, they should bring it before me for a hearing. ¹⁸ So I instructed you at that time regarding everything you should do.

Bible Verse Review
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your God: Deuteronomy 10:22, Deuteronomy 28:62, Genesis 15:5, Genesis 22:17, Genesis 28:14, Exodus 12:37, Exodus 32:13, Numbers 1:46, 1 Chronicles 27:23, Nehemiah 9:23

ye are this day: This was the promise made by God to Abraham - Genesis 15:5, Genesis 15:6, which Moses considers now as amply fulfilled. Many suppose the expression to be hyperbolical; and others, no friends to revelation, think it a vain, empty boast, because the stars, in their apprehension, amount to innumerable millions. But, as this refers to the number of stars that appear to the naked eye, which only amount to about 3,010 in both hemispheres, the number of the Israelites far exceeded this; for independently of women and children, at the last census, they amounted to more than 600,000.

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:16 - General Genesis 46:3 - I will Genesis 48:19 - become Numbers 10:36 - many thousands of Israel Ezekiel 16:7 - excellent ornaments Hebrews 6:14 - multiplying Hebrews 11:12 - as the stars

Cross-References

Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good, so God separated the light from the darkness.

Deuteronomy 32:4
As for the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. He is a reliable God who is never unjust, he is fair and upright.

Psalms 104:31
May the splendor of the Lord endure! May the Lord find pleasure in the living things he has made!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The Lord your God hath multiplied you,.... Which was the reason why he could not bear them, or the government of them was too heavy for him, because they were so numerous, and the cases brought before him to decide were so many:

and, behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude; whereby it appeared that the promise to Abraham was fulfilled, Genesis 15:5, they were now 600,000 men fit for war, besides women and children, and those under age, which must make the number of them very large.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This appointment of the “captains” (compare Exodus 18:21 ff) must not be confounded with that of the elders in Numbers 11:16 ff. The former would number 78,600; the latter were 70 only.

A comparison between this passage and that in Exodus makes it obvious that Moses is only touching on certain parts of the whole history, without regard to order of time, but with a special purpose. This important arrangement for the good government of the people took place before they left Horeb to march direct to the promised land. This fact sets more clearly before us the perverseness and ingratitude of the people, to which the orator next passes; and shows, what he was anxious to impress, that the fault of the 40 years’ delay rested only with themselves!

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 1:10. Ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude. — This was the promise God made to Abraham, Genesis 15:5-6; and Moses considers it now as amply fulfilled. But was it really so? Many suppose the expression to be hyperbolical; and others, no friends to revelation, think it a vain empty boast, because the stars, in their apprehension, amount to innumerable millions. Let us consider this subject. How many in number are the stars which appear to the naked eye? for it is by what appears to the naked eye we are to be governed in this business, for God brought Abraham forth abroad, i. e., out of doors, and bade him look towards heaven, not with a telescope, but with his naked eyes, Genesis 15:5. Now I shall beg the objector to come forth abroad, and look up in the brightest and most favourable night, and count the stars-he need not be terrified at their abundance; the more they are, the more he can count; and I shall pledge myself to find a male Israelite in the very last census taken of this people, Numbers 26:0, for every star he finds in the whole upper hemisphere of heaven. The truth is, only about 3,010 stars can be seen by the naked eye in both the northern and southern hemispheres; and the Israelites, independently of women and children, were at the above time more than 600,000. And suppose we even allow that, from the late discoveries of Dr. Herschel and others with telescopes which have magnified between 35 and 36,000 times, there may be 75 millions of stars visible by the help of such instruments, which is the highest calculation ever made, yet still the Divine word stands literally true: St. Matthew says, Matthew 1:17, that the generations from Abraham to Christ were 42; now we find at the second census that the fighting men among the Hebrews amounted to 603,000; and the Israelites, who have never ceased to be a distinct people, have so multiplied as far to exceed the number of all the fixed stars taken together.