³⁰ Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, ^(A)“You have brought trouble on me ^(B)by making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, ^(C)the Canaanites and the Perizzites. ^(D)My numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”

⁷ It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples,

⁵ “And you shall make response before the Lord your God, ‘A ^(A)wandering Aramean was my father. And he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, ^(B)few in number, and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.