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

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:

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.

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:

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

⁸ Now a new king came to power in Egypt, who had no knowledge of Joseph.

⁹ And he said to his people, See, the people of Israel are greater in number and in power than we are:

³⁷ And the children of Israel made the journey from Rameses to Succoth; there were about six hundred thousand men on foot, as well as children.

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,

¹² So that from one man, who was near to death, came children in number as the stars in heaven, or as the sand by the seaside, which may not be numbered.