²⁷ And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.

⁷ And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

³ And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:

¹⁷ But when the time was near for putting into effect the undertaking which God had given to Abraham, the people were increasing in Egypt,

⁵ And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:

⁴ I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;

⁸ With the sound of the pipe I will get them together; for I have given the price to make them free: and they will be increased as they were increased.

³⁸ He gives them his blessing so that they are increased greatly, and their cattle do not become less.

²⁴ And his people were greatly increased, and became stronger than those who were against them.

²³ And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.

²² Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now the Lord your God has made you like the stars of heaven in number.

¹² But the more cruel they were to them, the more their number increased, till all the land was full of them. And the children of Israel were hated by the Egyptians.

¹⁴ Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

⁶ I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

¹⁶ And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

⁹ But the dove saw no resting-place for her foot, and came back to the ark, for the waters were still over all the earth; and he put out his hand, and took her into the ark.

⁷ Noah sent out a raven, which went this way and that till the waters were gone from the earth.