Deuteronomy 26:5
And thou shalt answer and say before the Lord thy God: Laban the Aramite sought to destroy my father, I and he went down to Mizraim, and dwelt there with a few people, but became there a people great and strong.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
6But the Mizraee maltreated and afflicted us, and laid hard labour upon us.
Cross References
Genesis 25:20And Izhak was a son of forty years when he took Revekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramite of Padan Aram, the sister of Laban the Aramite, to be his wife.
Genesis 28:5And Izhak sent Jakob away, and he went to Padan Aram to Laban bar Bethuel, the Aramite, the brother of Revekah, the mother of Jakob and Esau.
Genesis 31:24And a word came from before the Lord to Laban the Aramite in a dream of the night, and He said to him, Beware, lest thou speak with Jakob from good to evil.
Genesis 43:1But the famine prevailed in the land.
Genesis 45:7And the Lord sent me before you to set a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.
Genesis 46:1And Israel journeyed, and all that he had, and came to Beer Shava; and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Izhak.
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 →