Deuteronomy 1:11
Good News Translation
May the LORD, the God of your ancestors, make you increase a thousand times more and make you prosperous, as he promised!

New Revised Standard Version
May the LORD, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times more and bless you, as he has promised you!

Contemporary English Version
God has even promised to bless us a thousand times more, and I pray that he will.

New American Bible
May the LORD, the God of your ancestors, increase you a thousand times over, and bless you as he promised!

Douay-Rheims Bible
(The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many thousands, and bless you as he hath spoken.)

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

(The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many thousands, and bless you as he hath spoken.)

make you

2 Samuel 24:3 And Joab said to the king: The Lord thy God increase thy people, and make them as many more as they are now, and again multiply them a hundredfold in the sight of my lord the king: but what meaneth my lord the king by this kind of thing?

1 Chronicles 21:3 And Joab answered: The Lord make his people a hundred times more than they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all thy servants: why doth my lord seek this thing, which may be imputed as a sin to Israel?

Psalm 115:14 May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your children.

and bless you

Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said to him: Look up to heaven and number the stars if thou canst. And he said to him: So shall thy seed be.

Genesis 22:17 I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore; thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.

Genesis 26:4 And I will multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven: and I will give to thy posterity all these countries: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.

Genesis 49:25 The God of thy father shall be thy helper, and the Almighty shall bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, with the blessings of the deep that lieth beneath, with the blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

Exodus 32:13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou sworest by thy own self, saying: I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven: and this whole land that I have spoken of, I will give to your seed, and you shall possess it for ever:

Numbers 6:27 And they shall invoke my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them.

Numbers 22:12 And God said to Balaam: Thou shalt not go with them, nor shalt thou curse the people: because it is blessed.

Context
Moses Appoints Leaders
10I 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. 11(The Lord God of your fathers add to this number many thousands, and bless you as he hath spoken.)12I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:8
Behold, said he, I have delivered it to you: go in and possess it, concerning which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give it to them, and to their seed after them.

Deuteronomy 1:10
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.

Deuteronomy 1:12
I alone am not able to bear your business, and the charge of you and your differences.

2 Samuel 24:3
And Joab said to the king: The Lord thy God increase thy people, and make them as many more as they are now, and again multiply them a hundredfold in the sight of my lord the king: but what meaneth my lord the king by this kind of thing?

1 Chronicles 21:3
And Joab answered: The Lord make his people a hundred times more than they are: but, my lord the king, are they not all thy servants: why doth my lord seek this thing, which may be imputed as a sin to Israel?

Psalm 115:14
May the Lord add blessings upon you: upon you, and upon your children.

Deuteronomy 1:10
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