Verse 5

And thou shalt answere and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian was my father, who being ready to perish for hunger, went downe into Egypt, and soiourned there with a smal company, and grew there vnto a nation great, mightie and full of people.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 43:1-2 : 1 Now great famine was in the land. 2 And when they had eaten vp the vitaile, which they had brought from Egypt, their father sayd vnto them, Turne againe, and bye vs a little foode.
  • Gen 46:27 : 27 Also the sonnes of Ioseph, which were borne him in Egypt, were two soules: so that al the soules of the house of Iaakob, which came into Egypt, are seuentie.
  • Deut 10:22 : 22 Thy fathers went downe into Egypt with seuentie persons, and now the Lord thy God hath made thee, as ye starres of ye heauen in multitude.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 And Iaakob fled into the countrey of Aram, and Israel serued for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheepe.
  • Acts 7:15 : 15 So Iacob went downe into Egypt, and he dyed, and our fathers,
  • Gen 43:12 : 12 And take double money in your hande, and the money, that was brought againe in your sackes mouthes: cary it againe in your hand, lest it were some ouersight.
  • Gen 45:7 : 7 Wherefore God sent me before you to preserue your posteritie in this land, & to saue you aliue by a great deliuerance.
  • Gen 45:11 : 11 Also I will nourish thee there (for yet remaine fiue yeeres of famine) lest thou perish through pouertie, thou and thy houshold, and all that thou hast.
  • Gen 46:1-7 : 1 Then Israel tooke his iourney with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifice vnto the God of his father Izhak. 2 And God spake vnto Israel in a vision by night, saying, Iaakob, Iaakob. Who answered, I am here. 3 Then hee sayde, I am God, the God of thy father, feare not to goe downe into Egypt: for I will there make of thee a great nation. 4 I wil go downe with thee into Egypt, and I will also bring thee vp againe, and Ioseph shal put his hand vpon thine eyes. 5 Then Iaakob rose vp from Beer-sheba: and the sonnes of Israel caried Iaakob their father, & their children, & their wiues in the charets, which Pharaoh had sent to cary him. 6 And they tooke their cattell & their goods, which they had gotten in the lande of Canaan, and came into Egypt, both Iaakob and all his seede with him, 7 His sonnes and his sonnes sonnes with him, his daughters and his sonnes daughters, and al his seede brought he with him into Egypt.
  • Gen 24:4 : 4 But thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, & take a wife vnto my sone Izhak.
  • Gen 25:20 : 20 And Izhak was fourtie yeere olde, when he tooke Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramite of Padan Aram, and sister to Laban the Aramite.
  • Gen 27:41 : 41 Therefore Esau hated Iaakob, because of the blessing, wherewith his father blessed him; Esau thought in his minde, The dayes of mourning for my father will come shortly, then I will slay may brother Iaakob.
  • Gen 28:5 : 5 Thus Izhak sent forth Iaakob, & he went to Padan Aram vnto Laban sonne of Bethuel the Aramite, brother to Rebekah, Iaakobs and Esaus mother.
  • Gen 31:20 : 20 Thus Iaakob stole away ye heart of Laban the Aramite: for he told him not that he fled.
  • Gen 31:24 : 24 And God came to Laban the Aramite in a dreame by night, and sayde vnto him, Take heede that thou speake not to Iaakob ought saue good.
  • Gen 31:40 : 40 I was in the day consumed with heate, and with frost in the night, and my sleepe departed from mine eyes.
  • Ps 105:23-24 : 23 Then Israel came to Egypt, and Iaakob was a stranger in the land of Ham. 24 And he increased his people exceedingly, and made them stronger then their oppressours.
  • Isa 51:1-2 : 1 Heare me, ye that followe after righteousnes, and ye that seeke the Lorde: looke vnto the rocke, whence ye are hewen, and to the hole of the pit, whence ye are digged. 2 Consider Abraham your father, and Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
  • Gen 47:27 : 27 And Israel dwelt in the lande of Egypt, in the countrey of Goshen: and they had their possessions therein, and grewe and multiplied exceedingly.
  • Exod 1:5 : 5 So al the soules, that came out of the loines of Iaakob, were seuentie soules: Ioseph was in Egypt already.
  • Exod 1:7 : 7 And the children of Israel brought foorth fruite and encreased in aboundance, and were multiplied, and were exceeding mightie, so that the land was full of them.
  • Exod 1:12 : 12 But the more they vexed them, the more they multiplied and grewe: therefore they were more grieued against the children of Israel.
  • Deut 7:7 : 7 The Lord did 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: