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. 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.
Seventy persons went down into Egypt with the fathers, and the Lord has since made the people countless as the stars of heaven for multitude. The verse is part of Moses' rehearsal to Israel just before entering the land of Canaan. Together with chapters 8 and 11, it is special instruction that Seventh-day Adventists should bear in mind, gather, publish, and circulate.
The multiplication it describes is one of the great and terrible things their eyes had seen, proving that He is their praise and their God. It calls them to fear Him, to serve Him, to cleave to Him, and to swear by His name. It belongs with what was spoken to Moses face to face from the pillar of cloud to distinguish between right and wrong, showing the kind of education God desires for His blood-bought heritage. That education includes lessons for physical well-being and for keeping His commandments and statutes for their good, which when taught and practiced reforms character and is to be voiced by teachers and under-shepherds to students.
The passage shows the privileges of God's commandment-keeping people, who are to have a distinct living connection with God by faith as a people waiting and watching for the Son of Man to come in the clouds of heaven. God alone is their shield, strength, and sufficiency, and He loves and keeps them as precious as the apple of the eye. Their privilege is to sense His love as morning light in the midst of the church militant, with each lamp fed by the golden oil of His grace and His love. It warns against worldly ambitious display and against being converted to the ideas and religious rites of the world and the nominal churches, and it calls God's people to refuse that conversion and to act.