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.
wherefore also there sprang of one, and him as good as dead, {\i so many} {\b as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand, which is by the sea-shore, innumerable.}\par