Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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:
He went down
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Bible References
A syrian
Genesis 24:4
but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
Genesis 25:20
and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.
Genesis 28:5
Thus Isaac sent Jacob away. And he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, the son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
Genesis 31:20
And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean, by not telling him that he intended to flee.
Hosea 12:12
Jacob fled to the land of Aram; there Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he guarded sheep.
He went down
Genesis 46:1
So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
Psalm 105:23
Then Israel came to Egypt; Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
Acts 7:15
And Jacob went down into Egypt, and he died, he and our fathers,
Became
Deuteronomy 10:22
Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.
Genesis 47:27
Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.
Exodus 1:7
But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.
General references
Genesis 12:2
And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.