22  Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the ^bstars of heaven for multitude.

  23  Their children also ^amultipliedst 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.

  30  Abraham received promises concerning his seed, and of the fruit of his loins—from whose loins ye are, namely, my servant Joseph—which were to continue so long as they were in the world; and as touching Abraham and his seed, out of the world they should continue; both in the world and out of the world should they continue as innumerable as the ^cstars; or, if ye were to count the sand upon the seashore ye could not number them.

  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 ^astars of the heavens.