B’mahtay miat, few in number: The Haggadah could have used an earlier verse in the Torah as a proof text for the statement that the Jews who went down to Egypt: “All the souls of the house of Jacob were seventy.” Instead it uses a verse which concludes: “And now He will make you like the stars in the heavens,” since this supports the very premise of the telling: even though Jacob’s family was small, God made them “as numerous as the stars in the sky.”