"You shall answerand saybeforethe LORDyour God,My fatherwas a wanderingAramean,and he wentdownto Egyptand sojournedthere,fewin number;but therehe becamea great,mightyand populousnation.
And I will makeyou a greatnation,And I will blessyou, And makeyour namegreat;And so you shall be a blessing;
but you will goto my countryand to my relatives,and takea wifefor my sonIsaac."
and Isaacwas fortyyearsoldwhen he tookRebekah,the daughterof Bethuelthe Arameanof Paddan-aram,the sisterof Labanthe Aramean,to be his wife.
So Esauborea grudgeagainstJacobbecauseof the blessingwith whichhis fatherhad blessedhim; and Esausaidto himself,"The daysof mourningfor my fatherare near;then I will killmy brotherJacob."
Then IsaacsentJacobaway,and he wentto Paddan-aramto Laban,sonof Bethuelthe Aramean,the brotherof Rebekah,the motherof Jacoband Esau.
And JacobdeceivedLabanthe Arameanby not tellinghim that he was fleeing.
Godcameto Labanthe Arameanin a dreamof the nightand saidto him, "Be carefulthat you do not speakto Jacobeithergoodorbad."
"[Thus] I was: by daythe heatconsumedme and the frostby night,and my sleepfledfrom my eyes.
"Takedouble[the] moneyin your hand,and takebackin your handthe moneythat was returnedin the mouthof your sacks;perhapsit was a mistake.
"ThereI will also providefor you, for there are stillfiveyearsof famine[to come], and you and your householdand allthat you have would be impoverished."'
"Godsentme beforeyou to preservefor you a remnantin the earth,and to keepyou aliveby a greatdeliverance.
and the sonsof Joseph,who were bornto him in Egyptwere two;allthe personsof the houseof Jacob,who cameto Egypt,[were] seventy.
Now Israellivedin the landof Egypt,in Goshen,and they acquiredpropertyin it and were fruitfuland becameverynumerous.
They saidto Pharaoh,"We have cometo sojournin the land,for thereis nopasturefor your servants'flocks,for the famineis severein the landof Canaan.Now,therefore, pleaselet your servantslivein the landof Goshen."
But the morethey afflictedthem, the morethey multipliedand the morethey spreadout, so that they were in dreadof the sonsof Israel.
Allthe personswho camefrom the loinsof Jacobwere seventyin number,but Josephwas [already] in Egypt.
But the sonsof Israelwere fruitfuland increasedgreatly,and multiplied,and becameexceedinglymighty,so that the landwas filledwith them.
Now Jacobfledto the landof Aram,And Israelworkedfor a wife,And for a wifehe kept[sheep].
But by a prophetthe LORDbroughtIsraelfrom Egypt,And by a prophethe was kept.
"And Jacobwent downto Egyptand [there] he and our fathersdied.
The LORDyour Godhas multipliedyou, and behold,you are this daylike the starsof heavenin number.
"Your fatherswentdownto Egyptseventypersons[in all], and nowthe LORDyour Godhas madeyou as numerousas the starsof heaven.
"Then the priestshall takethe basketfrom your handand setit downbeforethe altarof the LORDyour God.
"The LORDdid not setHis loveon you norchooseyou becauseyou were morein numberthananyof the peoples,for you were the fewestof allpeoples,
