30 At this Jacob said to Simʹe·on and to Leʹvi:+ “YOU have brought ostracism upon me in making me a stench to the inhabitants of the land,+ with the Caʹnaan·ites and the Perʹiz·zites; whereas I am few in number,*+ and they will certainly gather together against me and assault me and I must be annihilated, I and my house.”

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.+