Deuteronomy 26:5
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
5 you shall make this response before the Lord your God: ‘A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous.(A)
Read full chapter
Joshua 24:4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.(A)
Read full chapter
Psalm 105:23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
23 Then Israel came to Egypt;
Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.(A)
Isaiah 52:4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
4 For thus says the Lord God: Long ago, my people went down into Egypt to reside there as aliens; the Assyrian, too, has oppressed them without cause.(A)
Read full chapter
Acts 7:15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
15 so Jacob went down to Egypt. He himself died there as well as our ancestors,(A)
Read full chapterNew Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.