Deuteronomy 26:5

Tree of Life Version

“Then you are to respond before Adonai your God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as an outsider, few in number. But there he became a great nation—mighty and numerous.

Cross References

Genesis 12:2

My heart’s desire is to make you into a great nation, to bless you, to make your name great so that you may be a blessing.

Genesis 24:4

On the contrary, to my land and to my relatives you must go and get a wife for my son Isaac.

Genesis 25:20

Isaac was 40 years old when he took for himself Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.

Genesis 27:41

So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, “Let the time for mourning my father draw near, so that I can kill my brother Jacob!”

Genesis 28:5

Then Isaac sent Jacob away and he went toward Paddan-aram, to Laban the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 31:20

while Jacob stole the heart from Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing.

Genesis 31:24

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Watch yourself—lest you say anything to Jacob, good or bad.”

Genesis 31:40

I was consumed by heat during the day, consumed by frost during the night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 43:12

Also take in your hand a double portion of silver, and bring back in your hand the silver that had been returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.

Genesis 45:11

I’ll provide food for you there—for the famine will last another five years—otherwise you’ll lose everything, you and your household, and everything that belongs to you.’

Genesis 45:7

But God sent me ahead of you to ensure a remnant in the land and to keep you alive for a great escape.

Genesis 46:27

The sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt was a tally of two people. The tally of all the people belonging to Jacob’s house who came to Egypt was 70.

Genesis 47:27

Meanwhile, Israel settled in the land of Egypt in the land of Goshen, acquired property in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.

Genesis 47:4

Then they said to Pharaoh, “We came to dwell temporarily in the land, since there is no pasture for the flocks that belong to your servants, for 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 they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread. So the Egyptians dreaded the presence of Bnei-Yisrael.

Exodus 1:5

The souls that came out of the line of Jacob numbered 70 in all, while Joseph was already in Egypt.

Exodus 1:7

Yet Bnei-Yisrael were fruitful, increased abundantly, multiplied and grew extremely numerous—so the land was filled with them.

Hosea 12:12

Since Gilead is full of iniquity, they are utterly worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls— even their altars will become heaps of rocks along the furrows of My field.”

Hosea 12:13

Now Jacob fled to the field of Aram, when Israel served for a wife— yes, he kept watch for a wife.

Acts 7:15

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

Deuteronomy 1:10

Adonai your God has multiplied you—and here you are today, like the stars of the heavens in number.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Your fathers went down to Egypt with 70 persons, and now Adonai your God has made you like the stars of the heavens in number.

Deuteronomy 26:4

The kohen is to take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of Adonai your God.

Deuteronomy 7:7

“It is not because you are more numerous than all the peoples that Adonai set His love on you and chose you—for you are the least of all peoples.