Deuteronomy 26:5
And thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: The Syrian pursued my father, who went down into Egypt, and sojourned there in a very small number, and grew into a nation great and strong and of an infinite multitude.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4And the priest taking the basket at thy hand, shall set it before the altar of the Lord thy God:
6And the Egyptians afflicted us, and persecuted us, laying on us most grievous burdens :
Cross References
Genesis 25:20Who when he was forty years old, took to wife Rebecca the daughter of Bathuel the Syrian of Mesopotamia, sister to Laban.
Genesis 28:5And when Isaac had sent him away, he took his journey and went to Mesopotamia of Syria to Laban the son of Bathuel the Syrian, brother to Rebecca his mother.
Genesis 31:24And he saw in a dream God saying to him: Take heed thou speak not any thing harshly against Jacob.
Genesis 43:1In the mean time the famine was heavy upon all the land.
Genesis 45:7And God sent me before, that you may be preserved upon the earth, and may have food to live.
Genesis 46:1And Israel taking his journey, with all that he had, came to the well of the oath, and killing 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 →