19-21 You must treat foreigners with the same loving care—
    remember, you were once foreigners in Egypt.
Reverently respect God, your God, serve him, hold tight to him,
    back up your promises with the authority of his name.
He’s your praise! He’s your God!
He did all these tremendous, these staggering things
    that you saw with your own eyes.

22 When your ancestors entered Egypt, they numbered a mere seventy souls. And now look at you—you look more like the stars in the night skies in number. And your God did it.

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20 Fear the Lord your God and serve him.(A) Hold fast(B) to him and take your oaths in his name.(C) 21 He is the one you praise;(D) he is your God, who performed for you those great(E) and awesome wonders(F) you saw with your own eyes. 22 Your ancestors who went down into Egypt were seventy in all,(G) and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.(H)

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