Deuteronomy 26:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

Genesis 24:4

But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.

Genesis 25:20

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.

Genesis 27:41

So Esau was full of hate for Jacob because of his father's blessing; and he said in his heart, The days of weeping for my father are near; then I will put my brother Jacob to death.

Genesis 28:5

So Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 31:20

And Jacob went away secretly, without giving news of his flight to Laban the Aramaean.

Genesis 31:24

Then God came to Laban in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.

Genesis 31:40

This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.

Genesis 43:12

And take twice as much money with you; that is to say, take back the money which was put in your bags, for it may have been an error;

Genesis 45:11

And there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years to come.

Genesis 45:7

God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.

Genesis 46:27

And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt.

Genesis 47:27

And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.

Genesis 47:4

And they said to Pharaoh, We have come to make a living in this land, because we have no grass for our flocks in the land of Canaan; so now let your servants make a place for themselves in the land of Goshen.

Exodus 1:12

But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.

Exodus 1:5

All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them.

Exodus 1:7

And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

Hosea 12:12

And Jacob went in flight into the field of Aram, and Israel became a servant for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Hosea 12:13

And by a prophet the Lord made Israel come up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept safe.

Acts 7:15

And Jacob went down to Egypt, and came to his end there, and so did our fathers;

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.

Deuteronomy 26:4

Then the priest will take the basket from your hand and put it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 7:7

The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations: