Deuteronomy 26:5

and you are to declare before the Lord your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
BSB · Berean Standard Bible
And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
KJV · King James Version
You shall answer and say before the Lord 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.

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WEB · World English Bible
And thou shalt answer and say before Jehovah thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
ASV · American Standard Version

Related passages

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.

A Syrian
Jacob being called a Syrian from his long residence in Padan-aram.
Genesis 24:4; Genesis 25:20; Genesis 28:5; Genesis 31:20, 24; Hosea 12:12
ready
Genesis 27:41; Genesis 31:40; Genesis 43:1, 2, 12; Genesis 45:7, 11; Isaiah 51:1, 2
he went down
Genesis 46:1–7; Psalm 105:23, 24; Acts 7:15
a few
Deuteronomy 7:7; Genesis 46:27; Exodus 1:5
became
Deuteronomy 10:22; Genesis 47:27; Exodus 1:7, 12