And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, An Aramean 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:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
The Syrian. Laban. See Genesis xxvii. (Challoner)
Hebrew, "My father was a Syrian, poor, (or ready to perish) and he went down "The ancestors of Jacob had, in effect, come from beyond the Euphrates, and he had dwelt in Mesopotamia for twenty years. But the translation of the Septuagint seems preferable, "My father abandoned (apebalen) Syria. "(Calmet)