Deuteronomy 26:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ you shall make this response before the Lord your God: ‘A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ And you shall say before the Lord your God, A wandering and lost Aramean ready to perish was my father [Jacob], and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And thou shalt answer and say before Jehovah thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

Common English Bible

⁵ Then you should solemnly state before the LORD your God: “My father was a starving Aramean. He went down to Egypt, living as an immigrant there with few family members, but that is where he became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And you shall say, in the sight of the Lord your God: 'The Syrian pursued my father, who descended into Egypt, and he sojourned there in a very small number, and he increased into a great and strong nation and into an innumerable multitude.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: The Syrian pursued my father, who went down into Egypt, and sojourned there in a very small number, and grew into a nation great and strong and of an infinite multitude.

Deuteronomy 26:5 Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 24:4

but will go to my country and to my kindred and get a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 25:20

and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 27:41

Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 28:5

Thus Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

Genesis 31:20

And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee.

Genesis 31:24

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, “Take heed that you say not a word to Jacob, either good or bad.”

Genesis 31:40

It was like this with me: by day the heat consumed me and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 43:12

Take double the money with you. Carry back with you the money that was returned in the top of your sacks; perhaps it was an oversight.

Genesis 45:11

I will provide for you there, since there are five more years of famine to come, so that you and your household and all that you have will not come to poverty.’

Genesis 45:7

God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to keep alive for you many survivors.

Genesis 46:27

The children of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.

Genesis 47:27

Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen, and they gained possessions in it and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly.

Genesis 47:4

They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to reside as aliens in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, we ask you, let your servants settle in the land of Goshen.”

Exodus 1:12

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

Exodus 1:5

The total number of people born to Jacob was seventy. (Joseph was already in Egypt.)

Exodus 1:7

But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.

Hosea 12:13

By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was guarded.

Acts 7:15

so Jacob went down to Egypt. He himself died there as well as our ancestors,

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has multiplied you, so that today you are as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in heaven.

Deuteronomy 26:4

When the priest takes the basket from your hand and sets it down before the altar of the Lord your God,

Deuteronomy 7:7

“It was not because you were more numerous than any other people that the Lord set his heart on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples.