Genesis 47:27

³He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.

⁷The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.

¹⁷“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

³⁸He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.

⁵You 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.

⁸I will signal for them and gather them, for I have redeemed them. They will increase as they were before.

²⁴He increased his people greatly, and made them stronger than their adversaries.

⁴I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

⁷and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from the earth.

¹²But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and the more they spread out. They started to dread the children of Israel.