Deuteronomy 26:5

Modern English Version

Then you must answer and say before the Lord your God, “A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with only a few in number, but there he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make of you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 24:4

But you shall go to my country and to my family, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 25:20

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah as his wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

Genesis 27:41

So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 28:5

Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan Aram to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 31:20

Jacob also deceived Laban the Syrian by not telling him that he was fleeing.

Genesis 31:24

But God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night and said to him, “Take care that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.”

Genesis 31:40

It was like this with me: In the day the heat consumed me and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 43:12

Take double the money with you, along with the money that was brought back in the mouths of your sacks. Carry it with you again. Perhaps it was a mistake.

Genesis 45:11

I will provide for you there, for there are still five years of famine to come, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.” ’

Genesis 45:7

God sent me ahead of you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Genesis 46:27

And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two. All those of the house of Jacob who came to Egypt were seventy.

Genesis 47:27

Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they had possessions there and grew and became very numerous.

Genesis 47:4

They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for your servants have no pasture for their flocks, because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please allow your servants to dwell in the land of Goshen.”

Exodus 1:12

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew so that as a result they abhorred the sons of Israel.

Exodus 1:5

All the people who came from the seed of Jacob were seventy people, but Joseph was in Egypt already.

Exodus 1:7

Nevertheless, the sons of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty, so that the land was filled with them.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the land of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

Hosea 12:13

By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.

Acts 7:15

Then Jacob went down into Egypt. And he and our fathers died,

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy people, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Deuteronomy 26:4

The priest will take the basket out of your hand and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 7:7

The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all the peoples.