Deuteronomy 26:5

New English Translation

Then you must affirm before the Lord your God, “A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

Then I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you, and I will make your name great, so that you will exemplify divine blessing.

Genesis 24:4

You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 25:20

When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 27:41

So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately, “The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!”

Genesis 28:5

So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and 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 also deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was leaving.

Genesis 31:24

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him, “Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.”

Genesis 31:40

I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.

Genesis 43:12

Take double the money with you; you must take back the money that was returned in the mouths of your sacks – perhaps it was an oversight.

Genesis 45:11

I will provide you with food there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor – you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you.”’

Genesis 45:7

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

Genesis 46:27

Counting the two sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.

Genesis 47:27

Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.

Genesis 47:4

Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”

Exodus 1:12

But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites,

Exodus 1:5

All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,

Exodus 1:7

The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the country of Aram, then Israel worked to acquire a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.

Hosea 12:13

The Lord brought Israel out of Egypt by a prophet, and due to a prophet Israel was preserved alive.

Acts 7:15

So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

Deuteronomy 10:22

When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.

Deuteronomy 26:4

The priest will then take the basket from you and set it before the altar of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 7:7

It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the Lord favored and chose you – for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.