## Kos Eliyahu on Pesach Haggadah, Magid, First Fruits Declaration

###### Kos Eliyahu on Pesach Haggadah, Magid, First Fruits Declaration 4:1
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**במתי מעט וגו'.** הא דלא מייתי ראיה מפ' כל הנפש לבית יעקב הבאה מצרימה שבעים שהוא מוקדם בתורה לפי שבפסוק זה מסיים ועתה שמך וגו':

**Rabbi Mark Greenspan:**
**B’mahtay miat, few in number:** The Haggadah could have used an earlier verse in the Torah as a proof text for the statement that the Jews who went down to Egypt: “All the souls of the house of Jacob were seventy.” Instead it uses a verse which concludes: “And now He will make you like the stars in the heavens,” since this supports the very premise of the telling: even though Jacob’s family was small, God made them “as numerous as the stars in the sky.”