Deuteronomy 26:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramean.  He went down to Egypt with a few people and resided there as a foreigner.  There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your ancestors went down to Egypt, seventy people in all,  and now the Lord your God has made you numerous, like the stars of the sky.

Genesis 46:27

And Joseph’s sons who were born to him in Egypt: two persons. All those of Jacob’s household who came to Egypt: seventy   persons.

Genesis 31:20

And Jacob deceived  Laban the Aramean, not telling him that he was fleeing.

Genesis 45:11

There I will sustain you, for there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you, your household, and everything you have will become destitute.’ ”

Genesis 45:7

God sent me ahead of you to establish you as a remnant within the land and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.

Genesis 43:12

Take twice as much silver with you. Return the silver that was returned to you in the top of your bags. Perhaps it was a mistake.

Genesis 31:24

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. ‘Watch yourself! ’ God warned him. ‘Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’

Acts 7:15

and Jacob went down to Egypt. He and our ancestors died there,

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the territory of Aram. Israel worked to earn a wife; he tended flocks for a wife.

Genesis 25:20

Isaac was forty years old when he took as his wife Rebekah  daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram  and sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 24:4

but will go to my land and my family to take a wife for my son Isaac.’

Deuteronomy 7:7

‘The Lord had his heart set on you and chose you, not because you were more numerous than all peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

Exodus 1:12

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

Exodus 1:7

But the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly, multiplied, and became extremely numerous  so that the land was filled with them.

Exodus 1:5

The total number of Jacob’s descendants  was seventy;  , Joseph was already in Egypt.

Genesis 47:27

Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property in it and became fruitful and very numerous.

Genesis 31:40

There I was #– #the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 28:5

So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 27:41

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau determined in his heart, ‘The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.’

Genesis 12:2

I will make you into a great nation, I will bless you, I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.

Genesis 47:4

And they said to Pharaoh, ‘We have come to stay in the land for a while because there is no grazing land for your servants’ sheep, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe.  So now, please let your servants settle in the land of Goshen.’

Deuteronomy 1:10

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

Deuteronomy 26:4

‘Then the priest will take the basket from you and place it before the altar of the Lord your God.

Hosea 12:13

The Lord brought Israel from Egypt by a prophet, and Israel was tended by a prophet.