Deuteronomy 26:5

New King James Version

And you shall answer and say before the Lord your God: ‘My father was a Syrian, about to perish, and he went down to Egypt and dwelt there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall 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 wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram, the sister of 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

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

Genesis 31:20

And Jacob stole away, unknown to Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee.

Genesis 31:24

But God had come to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, “Be careful that you speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.”

Genesis 31:40

There I was! In the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep departed from my eyes.

Genesis 43:12

Take double money in your hand, and take back in your hand the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks; perhaps it was an oversight.

Genesis 45:11

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

Genesis 45:7

And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in 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 persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy.

Genesis 47:27

So Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions there and grew and multiplied exceedingly.

Genesis 47:4

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

Exodus 1:12

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the children of Israel.

Exodus 1:5

All those who were descendants of Jacob were seventy persons (for Joseph was in Egypt already).

Exodus 1:7

But the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

Hosea 12:12

Jacob fled to the country of Syria; Israel served for a spouse, And for a wife he tended sheep.

Hosea 12:13

By a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, And by a prophet he was preserved.

Acts 7:15

So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers.

Deuteronomy 1:10

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.

Deuteronomy 26:4

“Then the priest shall 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 other people, for you were the least of all peoples;