Deuteronomy 26:5

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

You shall answer and say before the LORD your 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.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

Genesis 24:4

But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Yitzchak.*

Genesis 25:20

Yitzchak was forty years old when he took Rivka, the daughter of Betu'el the Syrian of Paddan-Aram 1, the sister of Lavan the Syrian, to be his wife.

Genesis 27:41

Esav hated Ya`akov because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esav said in his heart, *The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Ya`akov.*

Genesis 28:5

Yitzchak sent Ya`akov away. He went to Paddan-Aram 1 to Lavan, son of Betu'el the Syrian, Rivka's brother, Ya`akov's and Esav's mother.

Genesis 31:20

Ya`akov deceived Lavan the Syrian, in that he didn't tell him that he was running away.

Genesis 31:24

God came to Lavan, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, *Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Ya`akov either good or bad.*

Genesis 31:40

This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 43:12

and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.

Genesis 45:11

There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.*'

Genesis 45:7

God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

Genesis 46:27

The sons of Yosef, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Ya`akov, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

Genesis 47:27

Yisra'el lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

Genesis 47:4

They said to Par`oh, *We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Kena`an. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.*

Exodus 1:12

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Yisra'el.

Exodus 1:5

All the souls who came out of Ya`akov's body were seventy souls, and Yosef was in Egypt already.

Exodus 1:7

The children of Yisra'el were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

Hosea 12:12

Ya`akov fled into the country of Aram, and Yisra'el served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

Hosea 12:13

By a prophet the LORD brought Yisra'el up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.

Acts 7:15

Ya`akov went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,

Deuteronomy 1:10

The LORD your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of the sky for multitude.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.

Deuteronomy 26:4

The Kohen shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 7:7

The LORD didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples: