Deuteronomy 26:5

And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord, thy God, a Syrian, ready to perish, an Aramean wandering about, was my father, a reference to Jacob's journey to Mesopotamia and to his subsequent wanderings in the Land of Promise, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, as the ancestor of the twelve tribes, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous, Exodus 1:7;