Deuteronomy 26:5

Good News Translation

Then, in the Lord's presence you will recite these words: ‘My ancestor was a wandering Aramean, who took his family to Egypt to live. They were few in number when they went there, but they became a large and powerful nation.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will give you many descendants, and they will become a great nation. I will bless you and make your name famous, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 24:4

You must go back to the country where I was born and get a wife for my son Isaac from among my relatives.”

Genesis 25:20

Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebecca, the daughter of Bethuel (an Aramean from Mesopotamia) and sister of Laban.

Genesis 27:41

Esau hated Jacob, because his father had given Jacob the blessing. He thought, “The time to mourn my father's death is near; then I will kill Jacob.”

Genesis 28:5

Isaac sent Jacob away to Mesopotamia, to Laban, who was the son of Bethuel the Aramean and the brother of Rebecca, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 31:20

Jacob deceived Laban by not letting him know that he was leaving.

Genesis 31:24

In a dream that night God came to Laban and said to him, “Be careful not to threaten Jacob in any way.”

Genesis 31:40

Many times I suffered from the heat during the day and from the cold at night. I was not able to sleep.

Genesis 43:12

Take with you also twice as much money, because you must take back the money that was returned in the top of your sacks. Maybe it was a mistake.

Genesis 45:11

If you are in Goshen, I can take care of you. There will still be five years of famine; and I do not want you, your family, and your livestock to starve.’”

Genesis 45:7

God sent me ahead of you to rescue you in this amazing way and to make sure that you and your descendants survive.

Genesis 46:27

Two sons were born to Joseph in Egypt, bringing to seventy the total number of Jacob's family who went there.

Genesis 47:27

The Israelites lived in Egypt in the region of Goshen, where they became rich and had many children.

Genesis 47:4

“We have come to live in this country, because in the land of Canaan the famine is so severe that there is no pasture for our flocks. Please give us permission to live in the region of Goshen.”

Exodus 1:12

But the more the Egyptians oppressed the Israelites, the more they increased in number and the farther they spread through the land. The Egyptians came to fear the Israelites

Exodus 1:5

The total number of these people directly descended from Jacob was seventy. His son Joseph was already in Egypt.

Exodus 1:7

but their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and became so numerous and strong that Egypt was filled with them.

Hosea 12:12

Our ancestor Jacob had to flee to Mesopotamia, where, in order to get a wife, he worked for another man and took care of his sheep.

Hosea 12:13

The Lord sent a prophet to rescue the people of Israel from slavery in Egypt and to take care of them.

Acts 7:15

Then Jacob went to Egypt, where he and his sons died.

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 10:22

When your ancestors went to Egypt, there were only seventy of them. But now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 26:4

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

Deuteronomy 7:7

“The Lord did not love you and choose you because you outnumbered other peoples; you were the smallest nation on earth.