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)

²² Your ancestors went down to Egypt seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars in heaven.^(A)

²⁷ The children of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob who came into Egypt were seventy.^(A)

The Brothers Come Again, Bringing Benjamin

43 Now the famine was severe in the land.^{(A) 2} And when they had eaten up the grain that they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again; buy us a little more food.”

²⁰ And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee.

¹¹ I will provide for you there, since there are five more years of famine to come, so that you and your household and all that you have will not come to poverty.’

⁷ God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to keep alive for you many survivors.

¹² Take double the money with you. Carry back with you the money that was returned in the top of your sacks; perhaps it was an oversight.^(A)

²⁴ But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream by night and said to him, “Take heed that you say not a word to Jacob, either good or bad.”^(A)

¹⁵ so Jacob went down to Egypt. He himself died there as well as our ancestors,^(A)