And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing:
Deuteronomy 26:5 - King James 2000 And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, An Aramean ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And you shall say before the Lord your God, A wandering and lost Aramean ready to perish was my father [Jacob], and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous. American Standard Version (1901) And thou shalt answer and say before Jehovah thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. Common English Bible Then you should solemnly state before the LORD your God: “My father was a starving Aramean. He went down to Egypt, living as an immigrant there with few family members, but that is where he became a great nation, mighty and numerous. Catholic Public Domain Version And you shall say, in the sight of the Lord your God: 'The Syrian pursued my father, who descended into Egypt, and he sojourned there in a very small number, and he increased into a great and strong nation and into an innumerable multitude. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: The Syrian pursued my father, who went down into Egypt, and sojourned there in a very small number, and grew into a nation great and strong and of an infinite multitude. |
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing:
But you shall go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddanaram, the sister to Laban the Aramean.
And 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 will I slay my brother Jacob.
And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Paddanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled.
And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that you speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Thus I was; in the day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes.
And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; perhaps it was an oversight:
And there will I nourish you; for yet there are five years of famine; lest you, and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
And the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were three score and ten.
And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for your servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
And all persons that were direct offspring of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
And Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
The LORD your God has multiplied you, and, behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Your fathers went down into Egypt with three score and ten persons; and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven for multitude.
And the priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.
The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people: