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.

Majority Standard Bible

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

4Then the priest shall take the basket from your hands and place it before the altar of the LORD your God,

6But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.

Read all of Deuteronomy 26

Cross References

Genesis 25:20and 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 28:5So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 31:24But 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 43:1Now the famine was still severe in the land.

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

Genesis 46:1So Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices 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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Deuteronomy 26:5