Verse 5

Then you must affirm before the LORD your God,“A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 43:1-2 : 1 The Second Journey to Egypt Now the famine was severe in the land. 2 When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them,“Return, buy us a little more food.”
  • Gen 46:27 : 27 Counting the two sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.
  • Deut 10:22 : 22 When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 Jacob in Aram, Israel in Egypt, and Ephraim in Trouble Jacob fled to the country of Aram, then Israel worked to acquire a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.
  • Acts 7:15 : 15 So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,
  • Gen 43:12 : 12 Take double the money with you; you must take back the money that was returned in the mouths of your sacks– perhaps it was an oversight.
  • Gen 45:7 : 7 God sent me ahead of you to preserve you on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
  • Gen 45:11 : 11 I will provide you with food there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor– you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you.”’
  • Gen 46:1-7 : 1 The Family of Jacob goes to Egypt So Israel began his journey, taking with him all that he had. When he came to Beer Sheba he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. 2 God spoke to Israel in a vision during the night and said,“Jacob, Jacob!” He replied,“Here I am!” 3 He said,“I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. 4 I will go down with you to Egypt and I myself will certainly bring you back from there. Joseph will close your eyes.” 5 Then Jacob started out from Beer Sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent along to transport him. 6 Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt. 7 He brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters– all his descendants.
  • Gen 24:4 : 4 You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac.”
  • Gen 25:20 : 20 When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
  • Gen 27:41 : 41 So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing his father had given to his brother. Esau said privately,“The time of mourning for my father is near; then I will kill my brother Jacob!”
  • Gen 28:5 : 5 So Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
  • Gen 31:20 : 20 Jacob also deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was leaving.
  • Gen 31:24 : 24 But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him,“Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.”
  • Gen 31:40 : 40 I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep.
  • Ps 105:23-24 : 23 Israel moved to Egypt; Jacob lived for a time in the land of Ham. 24 The LORD made his people very fruitful, and made them more numerous than their enemies.
  • Isa 51:1-2 : 1 There is Hope for the Future“Listen to me, you who pursue godliness, who seek the LORD! Look at the rock from which you were chiseled, at the quarry from which you were dug! 2 Look at Abraham, your father, and Sarah, who gave you birth. When I summoned him, he was a lone individual, but I blessed him and gave him numerous descendants.
  • Gen 47:27 : 27 Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.
  • Exod 1:5 : 5 All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,
  • Exod 1:7 : 7 The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.
  • Exod 1:12 : 12 But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied and spread. As a result the Egyptians loathed the Israelites,
  • Deut 7:7 : 7 The Basis of Israel’s Election It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the LORD favored and chose you– for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.