Deuteronomy 26:5 “and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wand…”

Deuteronomy 26:5

and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

World English Bible

You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

American Standard Version

And thou shalt answer and say before Jehovah thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 small company, and grew there vnto a nation great, mightie and full of people.

Darby Translation

And thou shalt speak and say before Jehovah thy God, A perishing Aramaean was my father, and he went down to Egypt with a few, and sojourned there, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

Young's Literal Translation

'And thou hast answered and said before Jehovah thy God, A perishing Aramaean [is] my father! and he goeth down to Egypt, and sojourneth there with few men, and becometh there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous;

Bible in Basic English

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:

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Cross references

“A Syrian”

Genesis 31:20 Genesis 31:24 Genesis 24:4 Genesis 25:20 Hosea 12:12 Genesis 28:5

Genesis 31:20 · BSB

Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.

Genesis 31:24 · BSB

But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

Genesis 24:4 · BSB

but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 25:20 · BSB

and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Hosea 12:12 · BSB

Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife— for a wife he tended sheep.

Genesis 28:5 · BSB

So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

“ready”

Genesis 43:12 Genesis 45:7 Genesis 45:11 Genesis 27:41 Genesis 31:40 Genesis 43:1

Genesis 43:12 · BSB

Take double the silver with you so that you may return the silver that was put back into the mouths of your sacks. Perhaps it was a mistake.

Genesis 45:7 · BSB

God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Genesis 45:11 · BSB

And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’

Genesis 27:41 · BSB

Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”

Genesis 31:40 · BSB

As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 43:1 · BSB

Now the famine was still severe in the land.

“he went down”

Acts 7:15 Genesis 46:1–7 Psalm 105:23 Psalm 105:24

Acts 7:15 · BSB

So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died.

Genesis 46:1–7 · BSB

So Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Psalm 105:23 · BSB

Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.

Psalm 105:24 · BSB

And the LORD made His people very fruitful, more numerous than their foes,

“a few”

Genesis 46:27 Deuteronomy 7:7 Exodus 1:5

Genesis 46:27 · BSB

And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob’s family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.

Deuteronomy 7:7 · BSB

The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

Exodus 1:5 · BSB

The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.

“became”

Deuteronomy 10:22 Genesis 47:27 Exodus 1:7 Exodus 1:12

Deuteronomy 10:22 · BSB

Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Genesis 47:27 · BSB

Now the Israelites settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and became fruitful and increased greatly in number.

Exodus 1:7 · BSB

but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.

Exodus 1:12 · BSB

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4Then the priest shall take the basket from your hands and place it before the altar of the LORD your God,

6But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.

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