Deuteronomy 26:5

New American Bible - revised edition

Then you shall declare in the presence of the Lord, your God, “My father was a refugee Aramean who went down to Egypt with a small household and lived there as a resident alien. But there he became a nation great, strong and numerous.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

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

Genesis 24:4

but that you will go to my own land and to my relatives to get a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 25:20

Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 27:41

Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. Esau said to himself, “Let the time of mourning for my father come, so that I may kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 28:5

Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way; he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 31:20

Jacob had hoodwinked Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was going to flee.

Genesis 31:24

But that night God appeared to Laban the Aramean in a dream and said to him: Take care not to say anything to Jacob. Jacob and Laban in Gilead.

Genesis 31:40

Often the scorching heat devoured me by day, and the frost by night, while sleep fled from my eyes!

Genesis 43:12

Also take double the money along, for you must return the amount that was put back in the mouths of your bags; it may have been a mistake.

Genesis 45:11

I will provide for you there in the five years of famine that lie ahead, so that you and your household and all that are yours will not suffer want.’

Genesis 45:7

God, therefore, sent me on ahead of you to ensure for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives in an extraordinary deliverance.

Genesis 46:27

Together with Joseph’s sons who were born to him in Egypt—two persons—all the people comprising the household of Jacob who had come to Egypt amounted to seventy persons in all.

Genesis 47:27

Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. There they acquired holdings, were fertile, and multiplied greatly.

Genesis 47:4

We have come,” they continued, “in order to sojourn in this land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, because the famine has been severe in the land of Canaan. So now please let your servants settle in the region of Goshen.”

Exodus 1:12

Yet the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread, so that the Egyptians began to loathe the Israelites.

Exodus 1:5

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

Exodus 1:7

But the Israelites were fruitful and prolific. They multiplied and became so very numerous that the land was filled with them. The Oppression.

Hosea 12:12

In Gilead is falsehood, they have come to nothing; in Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, But their altars are like heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.

Hosea 12:13

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

Acts 7:15

and Jacob went down to Egypt. And he and our ancestors died

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord, your God, has made you numerous, and now you are as numerous as the stars of the heavens.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Seventy strong your ancestors went down to Egypt, and now the Lord, your God, has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Deuteronomy 26:4

The priest shall then take the basket from your hands and set it in front of the altar of the Lord, your God.

Deuteronomy 7:7

It was not because you are more numerous than all the peoples that the Lord set his heart on you and chose you; for you are really the smallest of all peoples.