Deuteronomy 26:5

New Century Version

Then you shall announce before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with only a few people, but they became a great, powerful, and large nation there.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you. I will make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.

Genesis 24:4

Instead, go back to my country, to the land of my relatives, and get a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 25:20

When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, who came from Northwest Mesopotamia. She was Bethuel’s daughter and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 27:41

After that Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing from Isaac. He thought to himself, “My father will soon die, and I will be sad for him. Then I will kill Jacob.”

Genesis 28:5

So Isaac sent Jacob to Northwest Mesopotamia, to Laban the brother of Rebekah. Bethuel the Aramean was the father of Laban and Rebekah, and Rebekah was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 31:20

And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was leaving.

Genesis 31:24

That night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and said, “Be careful! Do not say anything to Jacob, good or bad.”

Genesis 31:40

In the daytime the sun took away my strength, and at night I was cold and could not sleep.

Genesis 43:12

Take twice as much money with you this time, and take back the money that was returned to you in your sacks last time. Maybe it was a mistake.

Genesis 45:11

I will care for you during the next five years of hunger so that you and your family and all that you have will not starve.’

Genesis 45:7

So God sent me here ahead of you to make sure you have some descendants left on earth and to keep you alive in an amazing way.

Genesis 46:27

Joseph had two sons born in Egypt, so the total number in the family of Jacob in Egypt was seventy.

Genesis 47:27

The Israelites continued to live in the land of Goshen in Egypt. There they got possessions and had many children and grew in number.

Genesis 47:4

They said to the king, “We have come to live in this land, because there is no grass in the land of Canaan for our animals to eat, and the hunger is terrible there. So please allow us to live in the land of Goshen.”

Exodus 1:12

But the harder the Egyptians forced the Israelites to work, the more the Israelites grew in number and spread out. So the Egyptians became very afraid of them

Exodus 1:5

There was a total of seventy people who were descendants of Jacob. Jacob’s son Joseph was already in Egypt.

Exodus 1:7

But the people of Israel had many children, and their number grew greatly. They became very strong, and the country of Egypt was filled with them.

Hosea 12:12

Your ancestor Jacob fled to Northwest Mesopotamia where he worked to get a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.

Hosea 12:13

Later the Lord used a prophet to bring Jacob’s descendants out of Egypt; he used a prophet to take care of the Israelites.

Acts 7:15

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

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has made you grow in number so that there are as many of you as there are stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 10:22

There were only seventy of your ancestors when they went down to Egypt, and now the Lord your God has made you as many as the stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 26:4

The priest will take your basket and set it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 7:7

The Lord did not care for you and choose you because there were many of you—you are the smallest nation of all.