Deuteronomy 26: 5

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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED
DEUTERONOMY

CHAPTER 26

5 And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A ^aSyrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into ^bEgypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a ^cnation, great, mighty, and ^dpopulous:

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5a	HEB Aramaean. Abraham migrated to Aram and from there to the land of promise. Gen. 28: 5. 5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the ^aSyrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother. Hosea 12: 12. 12 And Jacob fled into the country of ^aSyria, and Israel served for a ^bwife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
b	Gen. 47: 4. 4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to ^asojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
c	TG Israel, Origins of.
d	Ex. 1: 7. 7 ¶ And the children of Israel were ^afruitful, and ^bincreased abundantly, and multiplied, and ^cwaxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.