Verse 5

And thou shalt aunswere and say before the Lorde thy God: The Syrians went about to destroy my father, and he went downe into Egypt, and so soiourned there with a fewe folke, and grewe there vnto a nation great, mightie, and full of people.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 43:1-2 : 1 And the dearth was great in the lande. 2 And it came to passe when they had eaten vp the corne which they had brought out of the lande of Egypt, theyr father sayde vnto them: go agayne and bye vs a litle foode.
  • Gen 46:27 : 27 And the sonnes of Ioseph whiche were borne hym in Egypt, were two soules: so that all the soules of the house of Iacob whiche came into Egypt, were threscore and ten. />
  • Deut 10:22 : 22 Thy fathers went downe into Egypt with threscore and ten persons: and nowe the Lorde thy God hath made thee & multiplied thee as the starres of heauen.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 Iacob fled into the lande of Syria, and Israel serued for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheepe.
  • Acts 7:15 : 15 And Iacob descended into Egypt, and dyed, both he and our fathers,
  • Gen 43:12 : 12 And take double money in your hande, & the money that was brought agayne in your sackes, take it agayne with you, peraduenture it was some ouersight.
  • Gen 45:7 : 7 Wherfore God sent me before you, to preserue you a posteritie in the earth, and to saue your liues by a great deliueraunce.
  • Gen 45:11 : 11 And there wyll I prouide thee sustenaunce (for there remaine yet fiue yeres of dearth) lest thou and thy housholde, & all that thou hast come to pouertie.
  • Gen 46:1-7 : 1 Israel toke his iourney with all that he had, and came to Beer seba, and offred offeringes vnto the God of his father Isahac. 2 And God spake vnto Israel in a vision by nyght, saying: Iacab, Iacob? And he aunswered: here am I. 3 And he sayde: I am God, the God of thy father, feare not to go downe into Egypt: for I wyll there make of thee a great people. 4 I wyll go downe with thee into Egypt: and I wyll surely make thee come vp agayne, and Ioseph shall put his hande vpon thyne eyes. 5 And Iacob rose vp from Beer-seba: and the sonnes of Israel caryed Iacob their father, and their childre, and their wyues, in the charettes whiche Pharao had sent to cary him. 6 And they toke their cattell, and the goodes whiche they had gotten in the lande of Chanaan, & came into Egypt, both Icob and all his seede with him, 7 His sonnes, & his sonnes sonnes with him, his daughters, and his sonnes daughters, and all his seede brought he with him into Egypt.
  • Gen 24:4 : 4 But thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne Isahac.
  • Gen 25:20 : 20 And Isahac was fourtie yere olde when he toke Rebecca to wyfe, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, and sister to Laban the Syrian.
  • Gen 27:41 : 41 And Esau hated Iacob, because of the blessyng that his father blessed hym withall. And Esau sayde in his heart: The dayes of sorowyng for my father are at hande, then wyll I slaye my brother Iacob.
  • Gen 28:5 : 5 Thus Isahac sent foorth Iacob: and he went towarde Mesopotamia, vnto Laban, sonne of Bethuel the Syrian, and brother to Rebecca Iacob and Esaus mother.
  • Gen 31:20 : 20 And Iacob stale away the heart of Laban the Syrian, in that he tolde him not that he fled.
  • Gen 31:24 : 24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dreame by nyght, and sayd vnto him: take heede that thou speake not to Iacob ought saue good.
  • Gen 31:40 : 40 I was in suche case, that by day the heate consumed me, and the frost by nyght, and my slepe departed from mine eyes.
  • Ps 105:23-24 : 23 Israel also came into Egypt: & Iacob was a straunger in the lande of Cham. 24 And he encreased his people exceedinglye: and made them stronger then their enemies.
  • Isa 51:1-2 : 1 Hearken vnto me ye that holde of ryghteousnesse, and ye that seeke the Lorde: take heede to ye stone wherout ye are hewen, and to the graue wherout ye are digged. 2 Consider Abraham your father, and Sara that bare you, how that I called hym alone, and blessed hym, and encreased hym.
  • Gen 47:27 : 27 And Israel dwelt in Egypt, euen in they countrey of Gosen, and they had their possessions therin, and grewe and multiplied exceedyngly.
  • Exod 1:5 : 5 All the soules that came out of the line of Iacob, were seuentie:
  • Exod 1:7 : 7 And the children of Israel were fruitfull, encreased, multiplied, & waxed exceedyng myghtie, and the lande was full of them.
  • Exod 1:12 : 12 But the more they vexed them, the more they multiplied and grewe: so that they abhorred at the syght of the chyldren of Israel.
  • Deut 7:7 : 7 The Lorde dyd not set his loue vpon you, nor chose you because ye were mo in number then any people (for ye were the fewest of all people)