Deuteronomy 10:22

Thy fathers went down, etc.] A.V. and R.V. miss both the emphatic order of the original and an idiom in it. Translate, Seventy persons did thy fathers go down into Egypt, but now, etc. The number is found elsewhere only in P, Genesis 46:27; Exodus 1:5, and this verse is regarded as derived from P and therefore a late addition to D. Yet this round number may have been a common tradition once found in JE; and indeed P treats it as an accepted fact, to which he has to reconcile his other data. -The number 70 is not invented by P, since he puts it together in Genesis 46:8-27 only with trouble and difficulty" (Cornill, Einleitung, 35 f.). There remains, however, the term nepheshfor person, very characteristic of, though not confined to, P. With the whole v., cp. Deuteronomy 26:5.

made thee as the stars, etc.] See on Deuteronomy 1:10.