Verse 5

And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 43:1-2 : 1 And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food. 2 And Judah said to him, The man said to us with an oath, You are not to come before me again without your brother.
  • Gen 46:27 : 27 And the sons of Joseph whom he had in Egypt were two. Seventy persons of the family of Jacob came into Egypt.
  • Deut 10:22 : 22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.
  • Acts 7:15 : 15 And Jacob went down to Egypt, and came to his end there, and so did our fathers;
  • Gen 43:12 : 12 And take your brother and go back to the man:
  • Gen 45:7 : 7 God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.
  • Gen 45:11 : 11 And there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years to come.
  • Gen 46:1-7 : 1 And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac. 2 And God said to Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. 3 And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there: 4 I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will see that you come back again, and at your death Joseph will put his hands on your eyes. 5 Then Jacob went on from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Jacob took their father and their little ones and their wives in the carts which Pharaoh had sent for them. 6 And they took their cattle and all the goods which they had got in the land of Canaan, and came to Egypt, even Jacob and all his seed: 7 His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his daughters' sons and all his family he took with him into Egypt.
  • Gen 24:4 : 4 But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.
  • Gen 25:20 : 20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean of Paddan-aram, and the sister of Laban the Aramaean, to be his wife.
  • Gen 27:41 : 41 So Esau was full of hate for Jacob because of his father's blessing; and he said in his heart, The days of weeping for my father are near; then I will put my brother Jacob to death.
  • Gen 28:5 : 5 So Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramaean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
  • Gen 31:20 : 20 And Jacob went away secretly, without giving news of his flight to Laban the Aramaean.
  • Gen 31:24 : 24 Then God came to Laban in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.
  • Gen 31:40 : 40 This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.
  • Ps 105:23-24 : 23 Then Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob was living in the land of Ham. 24 And his people were greatly increased, and became stronger than those who were against them.
  • Isa 51:1-2 : 1 Give ear to me, you who are searching for righteousness, who are looking for the Lord: see the rock from which you were cut out, and the hole out of which you were taken. 2 Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.
  • Gen 47:27 : 27 And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.
  • Exod 1:5 : 5 All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons: and Joseph had come to Egypt before them.
  • Exod 1:7 : 7 And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.
  • Exod 1:12 : 12 But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.
  • Deut 7:7 : 7 The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations: