Deuteronomy 1 · Verse 10

Deuteronomy 1:10

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

Deuteronomy 1:10, King James Version

Deuteronomy 1:10 in other translations

BSB	The LORD your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.
WEB	The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.
ASV	Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
YLT	Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and lo, ye are to-day as the stars of the heavens for multitude;
DARBY	Jehovah your God hath multiplied you, and behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
BBE	The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.
Webster	The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

What does Deuteronomy 1:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 1:9-18

9-18. I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone--a little before their arrival in Horeb. Moses addresses that new generation as the representatives of their fathers, in whose sight and hearing all the transactions he recounts took place. A reference is here made to the suggestion of Jethro (Ex 18:18). In noticing his practical adoption of a plan by which the administration of…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 10 Ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude - This was the promise God made to Abraham, Gen 15:5, Gen 15:6; 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, Gen 15:5. Now I shall beg the objector to come forth abroad, and look up in the brightest and most favorable 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, 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, Deuteronomy 1, 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.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 1:9-18

Moses reminds the people of the happy constitution of their government, which might make them all safe and easy, if it was not their own fault. He owns the fulfilment of God's promise to Abraham, and prays for the further accomplishment of it. We are not straitened in the power and goodness of God; why should we be straitened in our own faith and hope? Good laws were given to the Israelites, and good men were to see…

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Deuteronomy 1:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יְהוָ֥הYah.wehYahwehH3068

אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם'e.lo.hei.KhemGod yourH430

הִרְבָּ֣הhir.Bahhe has increasedH7235

אֶתְכֶ֑ם'et.Khem<obj.> youH853

וְהִנְּכֶ֣םve.hi.ne.Khemand here youH2009

הַיּ֔וֹםhai.Yomthis dayH3117

כְּכוֹכְבֵ֥יke.chokh.Vei[are] like [the] stars ofH3556

הַשָּׁמַ֖יִםha.sha.Ma.yimthe heavensH8064

לָרֹֽב\׃la.Rofor multitudeH7230

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Deuteronomy 1:10

Exodus 32:13
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
Deuteronomy 10:22
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.
Genesis 22:17
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Genesis 15:5
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.
Deuteronomy 28:62
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.
Exodus 12:37
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
Nehemiah 9:23
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.
Genesis 28:14
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Numbers 1:46
Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
1 Chronicles 27:23
But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the Lord had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

your God.
10:22; 28:62; Ge 15:5; 22:17; 28:14; Ex 12:37; 32:13; Nu 1:46
1Ch 27:23; Ne 9:23
ye are this day.This was the promise made by God to Abraham, (Ge 15:5, 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.

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Context

Deuteronomy 1:9
And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you myself alone:
Deuteronomy 1:10
The Lord your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Deuteronomy 1:11
(The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)

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Deuteronomy 1:10 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Jehová vuestro Dios os ha multiplicado, y he aquí sois hoy vosotros como las estrellas del cielo en multitud.
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	L’ Éternel, votre Dieu, vous a multipliés, et vous voici aujourd’hui, en multitude, comme les étoiles des cieux.
German Elberfelder 1871	Jehova, euer Gott, hat euch gemehrt, und siehe, ihr seid heute wie die Sterne des Himmels an Menge.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Non possum solus sustinere vos: quia Dominus Deus vester multiplicavit vos, et estis hodie sicut stellæ cæli, plurimi.