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.
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
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
Now the famine was still severe in the land.
Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Take double the silver with you so that you may return the silver that was put back into the mouths of your sacks. Perha
And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and
But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either
but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”
Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.
Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.
So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died.
“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the
and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sist
Now the Israelites settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and became fruitf
So Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Is
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of J
The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you
But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and flourished; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites
Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days
but the Israelites were fruitful and increased rapidly; they multiplied and became exceedingly numerous, so that the lan