Genesis 46:6

Yahweh brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” He said to Abram, “So your offspring will be.”

He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

The sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt, were two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob, who came into Egypt, were seventy.

They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.

Joseph died, as did all his brothers, and all that generation.

and they made their lives bitter with hard service in mortar and in brick, and in all kinds of service in the field, all their service, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Don’t contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.

I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

For the Lord Yahweh says: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there: and the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.

Jacob went down into Egypt and he died, himself and our fathers,

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

Esau lived in the hill country of Seir. Esau is Edom.

All the souls who came out of Jacob’s body were seventy souls, and Joseph was in Egypt already.

Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

Yahweh your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as the stars of the sky for multitude.

You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, “My father was a Syrian ready to perish. He went down into Egypt, and lived there, few in number. There he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

The Egyptians mistreated us, afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

and take double money in your hand, and take back the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks. Perhaps it was an oversight.

God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.” ’

God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He said, “Here I am.”

These are those who were counted of the children of Israel, six hundred one thousand seven hundred thirty.

Those who were counted of them were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not counted among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.

You will be left few in number, even though you were as the stars of the sky for multitude, because you didn’t listen to Yahweh your God’s voice.

You also multiplied their children as the stars of the sky, and brought them into the land concerning which you said to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

and struck all the firstborn in Egypt, the chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.

when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.

Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served to get a wife, and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.

Joseph sent and summoned Jacob, his father, and all his relatives, seventy-five souls.

The God of this people chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they stayed as aliens in the land of Egypt, and with an uplifted arm, he led them out of it.

He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

Isaac sent Jacob away. He went to Paddan Aram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob’s and Esau’s mother.

Jacob deceived Laban the Syrian, in that he didn’t tell him that he was running away.

God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”

This was my situation: in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Jacob sent messengers in front of him to Esau, his brother, to the land of Seir, the field of Edom.

Jacob rose up from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel carried Jacob, their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen; and they got themselves possessions therein, and were fruitful, and multiplied exceedingly.

The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.

But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.

Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.

Yahweh didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples;

Therefore love the foreigner, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.

Joshua said to all the people, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods.

“When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Yahweh, then Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place.

They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”