Deuteronomy 26:5 - Revised Standard Version

⁵ “And you shall make response before the Lord your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father; and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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

⁵ 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)

⁵ 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

⁵ 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

⁵ 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

⁵ 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.

Deuteronomy 26:5 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 12:2

And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 24:4

but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 25:20

and Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Genesis 27:41

Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 28:5

Thus Isaac sent Jacob away; and he went to Paddan-aram to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

Genesis 31:20

And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee.

Genesis 31:24

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night, and said to him, “Take heed that you say not a word to Jacob, either good or bad.”

Genesis 31:40

Thus I was; by day the heat consumed me, and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 43:12

Take double the money with you; carry back with you the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks; perhaps it was an oversight.

Genesis 45:11

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

Genesis 45:7

And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors.

Genesis 46:27

and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, that came into Egypt, were seventy.

Genesis 47:27

Thus Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly.

Genesis 47:4

They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land; for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan; and now, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”

Exodus 1:12

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.

Exodus 1:5

All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt.

Exodus 1:7

But the descendants of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong; so that the land was filled with them.

Hosea 12:12

(Jacob fled to the land of Aram, there Israel did service for a wife, and for a wife he herded sheep.)

Hosea 12:13

By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.

Acts 7:15

and Jacob went down into Egypt. And he died, himself and our fathers,

Deuteronomy 1:10

the Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Deuteronomy 10:22

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

Deuteronomy 26:4

Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand, and set it down before the altar of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 7:7

It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love upon you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples;