Deuteronomy 26:5
Answer before Jehovah your God: 'My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and traveled there. They were few in number but he became a great, mighty and populous nation.
Genesis 43:1-2
The famine was extremely bad in the land.
Genesis 46:27
Joseph had two sons who were born in Egypt. There were a total of seventy people in Jacob's household who went to Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:22
Your fathers traveled to Egypt, seventy persons in all. Now Jehovah your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the universe (physical heavens).
Genesis 43:12
Take twice as much money with you, because you must take back the money that was returned in the top of your sacks. Maybe it was a mistake.
Genesis 45:7
God sent me ahead of you to make sure that you would have descendants on the earth, and to save your lives in an amazing way.
Genesis 45:11
I will provide for you in Egypt. For there will be five more years of famine. Then you, your family, and all who belong to you will not lose all that you have.'
Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the country of Syria. Israel worked to get a wife. He took care of sheep to pay for her.
Acts 7:15
Jacob went down into Egypt and died, he and our fathers.
Genesis 24:4
Instead, you will go to the land of my relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac.
Genesis 25:20
Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram, and sister of Laban the Aramean.
Genesis 27:41
So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him. Esau said to himself: The days of mourning for my father are near. Then I will kill my brother Jacob.
Genesis 28:5
Isaac then sent Jacob to stay with Rebekah's brother Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean.
Genesis 31:20
Jacob also tricked Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was leaving.
Genesis 31:24
In a dream that night God came to Laban. God said: Be careful not to threaten Jacob in any way.
Genesis 31:40
Many times I suffered from the heat during the day and from the cold at night. I was not able to sleep.
Genesis 46:1-7
Jacob (Israel) packed up everything he owned and left for Egypt. On the way he stopped near the town of Beer-sheba and offered sacrifices to the God his father Isaac had worshiped.
Genesis 47:27
The Israelites lived in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They became rich and had many children.
Exodus 1:5
Joseph was already in Egypt. The total number of Jacob's descendants was seventy.
Exodus 1:7
The children of Israel had many children. They became so numerous and strong that the land was filled with them.
Exodus 1:12
However the more the Israelites were oppressed, the more they increased in number and spread out. The Egyptians could not stand them any longer.
Deuteronomy 7:7
Jehovah set his heart on you. He chose you, even though you did not outnumber all the other people. You were the smallest of all nations.
Psalm 105:23-24
Then Israel came to Egypt. Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham.
Isaiah 51:1-2
Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek Jehovah. Look to the rock from which you were hewn and to the quarry from which you were dug out.