Deuteronomy 26:5

And you shall say, in the sight of the Lord your God: ‘The Syrian pursued my father, who descended into Egypt, and he sojourned there in a very small number, and he increased into a great and strong nation and into an innumerable multitude.

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In The 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:

In Context

4And the priest, taking up the basket from your hand, shall place it before the altar of the Lord your God.

6And the Egyptians afflicted us, and they persecuted us, imposing upon us the most grievous burdens.

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Cross References

Genesis 25:20who, when he was forty years old, took Rebekah, the sister of Laban, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian from Mesopotamia, as a wife.

Genesis 28:5And when Isaac had dismissed him, setting out, he went to Mesopotamia of Syria, to Laban, the son of Bethuel, the Syrian, the brother to Rebekah, his mother.

Genesis 31:24And he saw in a dream, God saying to him, “Beware that you not speak anything harsh against Jacob.”

Genesis 43:1Meanwhile, the famine pressed heavily on all the land.

Genesis 45:7And God sent me ahead, so that you may be preserved upon the earth, and so that you would be able to have food in order to live.

Genesis 46:1And Israel, setting out with all that he had, arrived at the Well of the Oath. And sacrificing victims there to the God of his father Isaac,

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 26:2-12

The Offering of First-Fruits. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; 2 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name there. 3 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days,… Read the whole commentary →

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