Parallel Strong's Berean Study Bibleand 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. Young's Literal Translation ‘And thou hast answered and said before Jehovah thy God, A perishing Aramaean [is] my father! and he goeth down to Egypt, and sojourneth there with few men, and becometh there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous; King James 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: Hebrew and you are to declareוְעָנִ֨יתָ (wə·‘ā·nî·ṯā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular Strong's 6030: To answer, respond before לִפְנֵ֣י ׀ (lip̄·nê) Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct Strong's 6440: The face the LORD יְהוָ֣ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel your God, אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative “My father אָבִ֔י (’ā·ḇî) Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 1: Father was a wandering אֹבֵ֣ד (’ō·ḇêḏ) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 6: To wander away, lose oneself, to perish Aramean, אֲרַמִּי֙ (’ă·ram·mî) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 761: Aramean -- an inhabitant of Aram (Syria) and he went down וַיֵּ֣רֶד (way·yê·reḏ) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend to Egypt מִצְרַ֔יְמָה (miṣ·ray·māh) Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's 4714: Egypt -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their country in Northwest Africa few in number מְעָ֑ט (mə·‘āṭ) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 4592: A little, fewness, a few and lived וַיָּ֥גָר (way·yā·ḡār) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1481: To turn aside from the road, sojourn, to shrink, fear, to gather for, hostility there שָׁ֖ם (šām) Adverb Strong's 8033: There, then, thither and became וַֽיְהִי־ (way·hî-) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be a great גָּד֖וֹל (gā·ḏō·wl) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent nation, לְג֥וֹי (lə·ḡō·w) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts mighty עָצ֥וּם (‘ā·ṣūm) Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 6099: Powerful, numerous and numerous. וָרָֽב׃ (wā·rāḇ) Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular Strong's 7227: Much, many, great |