...firft-fruits unto him : " A Syrian ready to perifti was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and fojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous," Deut. xxvi. 5. And God by Ezekiel tells them what they were before he vifited them ; " As...

...the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to perifh was my father; and he went down into Egypt and fojourned there with a few, and became there a nation great, mighty, and populous6." This was the firft ftep in the gradual accomplifhment of the temporal covenant : redeemed...

...priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, 5 and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God. And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish [was] my father, that is, Jacob, -who lived twenty years in Syria, and was ready to perish through Esau's enmity, .and...

...to ficrish through Esau's enmity ', and Laban's cruelty, and the famine that brought him to Egypt j and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, that is, seventy persons, and became there a nation, great, 6 mighty, and populous : And the Egyptians...

...set il down before the altar of the LORD thy God. 5 And thou shall speak and say before Ihe LORD Ihy 8 k =2 populous : 6 And the Egyptians evil-entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage :...

...bring their offering of the first fruits, this was the confession they were to use: • Thus shalt thou speak and say before the Lord thy God, a Syrian ready...down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few,' &c. see Deut. xxvi. 5. Jacob lived seventeen years with Joseph in Egypt, the same space of time which...

...ihis profession before GotL And there is more of their profession, in ver. 5. And thou shalt tpeak and say before the Lord thy God, A Syrian ready to...father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous. Poor Jacob went down to Egypt fur...

...was the 'beginning of harvest, when the first fruits were offered* with this humiliating language, A Syrian ready to perish was my Father, and he went...there with a few, and became there a nation great and mighty, (a) _ t IT is also called the Feast of Weeks, (b) (a) Deut, xxvi. 5. (b) Exod. xxxiv. 22,...

...his God, " — A Syrian ready to perifh was my father ; and " he went down into Egypt, and fojourned there " with a few, and became there a nation, great, " mighty, and populous. - • " And the Egyptians evil-entreated us, and rf" flicSted us, and laid upon us hard bondage....

...doubtless used by every devout Israelite once a year, in presenting the first fruits of his land—" A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went...few, and became there a nation, great, mighty and populous. And the Egyptians evil intreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage. And...