Deuteronomy 26:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Then, standing there in front of the place of worship, you must pray: My ancestor was homeless, an Aramean who went to live in Egypt. There were only a few in his family then, but they became great and powerful, a nation of many people.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will bless you and make your descendants into a great nation. You will become famous and be a blessing to others.

Genesis 24:4

Instead, go back to the land where I was born and find a wife for him from among my relatives.”

Genesis 25:20

and he was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel. She was also the sister of Laban, the Aramean from northern Syria. Almost twenty years later,

Genesis 27:41

Esau hated his brother Jacob because he had stolen the blessing that was supposed to be his. So he said to himself, “Just as soon as my father dies, I'll kill Jacob.”

Genesis 28:5

Isaac then sent Jacob to stay with Rebekah's brother Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.

Genesis 31:20

Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean by not saying that he intended to leave.

Genesis 31:24

But God appeared to Laban in a dream that night and warned, “Don't say a word to Jacob. Don't make a threat or a promise.”

Genesis 31:40

I sweated every day, and I couldn't sleep at night because of the cold.

Genesis 43:12

Also take along twice the amount of money for the grain, because there must have been some mistake when the money was put back in your sacks.

Genesis 45:11

I will take care of you there during the next five years of famine. But if you don't come, you and your family and your animals will starve to death.”

Genesis 45:7

But God sent me on ahead of you to keep your families alive and to save you in this wonderful way.

Genesis 46:27

Jacob's two grandsons who were born there made it a total of seventy members of Jacob's family in Egypt.

Genesis 47:27

The people of Israel made their home in the land of Goshen, where they became prosperous and had large families.

Genesis 47:4

But in our country all the pastures are dried up, and our sheep have no grass to eat. So we, your servants, have come here. Please let us live in the region of Goshen.”

Exodus 1:12

But even though the Israelites were ill-treated, their families grew larger, and they took over more land. Because of this, the Egyptians hated them more than before

Exodus 1:7

the people of Israel became so numerous that the whole region of Goshen was full of them.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob escaped to Syria where he tended sheep to earn himself a wife.

Hosea 12:13

I sent the prophet Moses to lead Israel from Egypt and to keep them safe.

Acts 7:15

His father went to Egypt and died there, just as our ancestors did.

Deuteronomy 1:10

The LORD our God has blessed us, and so now there are as many of us as there are stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 10:22

When your ancestors went to live in Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But the LORD has blessed you, and now there are more of you than there are stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 26:4

The priest will take the basket and set it in front of the LORD's altar.

Deuteronomy 7:7

You were the weakest of all nations,