Deuteronomy 26:5
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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: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.
In other translations
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: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.
Hebrew words
וְעָנִיתָve'anitaand you will answerH6030וְאָמַרְתָּve'amartaand you will sayH559לִפְנֵי׀lifnei<to> beforeH6440יְהוָהyahwehYahwehH3068אֱלֹהֶיךָ'eloheikhaGod yourH430אֲרַמִּי'arami[was] an ArameanH761אֹבֵד'ovedwanderingH6אָבִי'aviancestor myH1וַיֵּרֶדvaiyeredand he went downH3381מִצְרַיְמָהmitzraymahEgypt towardsH4714וַיָּגָרvaiyagorand he sojournedH1481שָׁםshamthereH8033בִּמְתֵיbimtei<in> men ofH4962מְעָטme'atfewnessH4592וַיְהִי־vayhi-and he becameH1961שָׁםshamthereH8033לְגוֹיlegoy<into> a nationH1471גָּדוֹלgadolgreatH1419עָצוּם'atzummightyH6099וָרָב׃varavand numerousH7227
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Deuteronomy 10:22Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the Lord thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.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 46:27And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.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.
- Genesis 43:1-21 And the famine was sore in the land. 2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.1 Now the famine was still severe in the land. 2 So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”
- Genesis 31:20And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.Moreover, Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was running away.
- Genesis 31:24And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.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 45:11And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.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 43:12And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight: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 45:7And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
- Genesis 24:4But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”
- Genesis 25:20And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan–aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.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.
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People and places
Places: Egypt