Deuteronomy 26:5

World English Bible (2000)

You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, "A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

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  • Gen 43:1-2 : 1 The famine was severe in the land. 2 It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."
  • Gen 46:27 : 27 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 seventy.
  • Deut 10:22 : 22 Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
  • Acts 7:15 : 15 Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, himself and our fathers,
  • Gen 43:12 : 12 and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.
  • Gen 45:7 : 7 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
  • Gen 45:11 : 11 There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."'
  • Gen 46:1-7 : 1 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. 2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" He said, "Here I am." 3 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation. 4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes." 5 Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all his seed with him, 7 his sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and he brought all his seed with him into Egypt.
  • Gen 24:4 : 4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
  • Gen 25:20 : 20 Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
  • Gen 27:41 : 41 Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."
  • Gen 28:5 : 5 Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, Rebekah's brother, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
  • Gen 31:20 : 20 Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn't tell him that he was running away.
  • Gen 31:24 : 24 God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."
  • Gen 31:40 : 40 This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.
  • Ps 105:23-24 : 23 Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham. 24 He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.
  • Isa 51:1-2 : 1 "Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the hold of the pit you were dug from. 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, and I blessed him, and made him many.
  • Gen 47:27 : 27 Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.
  • Exod 1:5 : 5 All the souls who came out of Jacob's body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.
  • Exod 1:7 : 7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
  • Exod 1:12 : 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They were grieved because of the children of Israel.
  • Deut 7:7 : 7 Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:

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