⁵ And you shall answer and say before the Lord your God: ‘My father was ^(A)a ^[a]Syrian, ^(B)about to perish, and ^(C)he went down to Egypt and ^[b]dwelt there, ^(D)few in number; and there he became a nation, ^(E)great, mighty, and populous.

²² Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the Lord your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.

²⁷ And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. ^(A)All the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy.

Joseph’s Brothers Return with Benjamin

43 Now the famine was ^(A)severe in the land. ² And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their father said to them, “Go ^(B)back, buy us a little food.”

¹¹ There I will ^(A)provide for you, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty; for there are still five years of famine.” ’

⁷ And God ^(A)sent me before you to preserve a ^[a]posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

¹² Take double money in your hand, and take back in your hand the money ^(A)that was returned in the mouth of your sacks; perhaps it was an oversight.

²⁴ But God ^(A)had come to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, “Be careful that you ^(B)speak to Jacob neither good nor bad.”

²⁰ And Jacob stole away, unknown to Laban the Syrian, in that he did not tell him that he intended to flee.

^15 (A)So Jacob went down to Egypt; ^(B)and he died, he and our fathers.