A Syrian — So Jacob was, partly by his original, as being born of Syrian parents, as were Abraham and Rebecca, both of Chaldea or Mesopotamia, which was a part of Syria largely so called, partly by his education and conversation; and partly by his relations, his wives being such, and his children too by their mother's. Ready to perish — Either through want and poverty; (See Genesis 28:11, Genesis 28:20, Genesis 32:10,) or through the rage of his brother Esau, and the treachery of his father — in — law Laban.
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Deuteronomy 26:5
5 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: