5 So Isaac sent Jacob away, and he struck out for Padʹdan-aʹram, for Laʹban the son of Be·thuʹel the Syrian,*+ the brother of Re·bekʹah,+ mother of Jacob and Eʹsau.*+

5 And you must answer and say before Jehovah your God, ‘My father was a perishing Syrian;*+ and he proceeded to go down to Egypt+ and to reside there as an alien with very few in number;+ but there he became a great nation, mighty and numerous.+