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.
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Genesis 24:4
but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac."

Genesis 25:20
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.

Genesis 28:5
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 31:20, 24
Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away. . . .

Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the land of Aram, and Israel worked for a wife; for a wife he tended sheep.

ready

Genesis 27:41
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
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

Genesis 43:1, 2, 12
Now the famine was still severe in the land. . . .

Genesis 45:7, 11
God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. . . .

Isaiah 51:1, 2
Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn. . . .

he went down

Genesis 46:1-7
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, 24
Then Israel went to Egypt; Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. . . .

Acts 7:15
So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died.

a few

Deuteronomy 7:7
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.

Genesis 46:27
And along with Joseph's two sons who were born to him in Egypt, in all there were seventy members of Jacob's household in Egypt.

Exodus 1:5
The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.

became

Deuteronomy 10:22
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
Thus 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, 12
but the Israelites were fruitful and increased abundantly; they multiplied and became exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them. . . .

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New American Standard Bible
"You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, 'My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation.

King James Bible
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:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are to respond by saying in the presence of the LORD your God: My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with a few people and lived there. There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.

International Standard Version
Then you are to affirm and declare in the presence of the LORD your God: 'A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, who went down to Egypt and traveled there with very few family members, yet there he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.

NET Bible
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.
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