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Gen 27:44
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And thou shalt dwell with him a few days, till the wrath of thy brother be assuaged,
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Gen 29:20
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So Jacob served seven years for Rachel: and they seemed but a few days, because of the greatness of his love.
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Gen 34:30
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And when they had boldly perpetrated these things, Jacob said to Simeon and Levi: You have troubled me, and made me hateful to the Chanaanites and Pherezites, the inhabitants of this land: we are few: they will gather themselves together and kill me; and both I, and my house, shall be destroyed.
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Gen 47:9
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He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.
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Lev 25:52
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If few, he shall make the reckoning with him according to the number of the years, and shall repay to the buyer of what remaineth of the years,
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Lev 26:22
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And I will send in upon you the beasts of the field, to destroy you and your cattle, and make you few in number, and that your highways may be desolate.
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Num 13:19
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View the land, of what sort it is: and the people that are the inhabitants thereof, whether they be strong or weak: few in number or many:
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Deut 4:27
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And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few among the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you.
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Deut 28:62
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And you shall remain few in number, who before were as the stars of heaven for multitude, because thou heardst not the voice of the Lord thy God.
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Jos 7:3
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And returning they said to him: Let not all the people go up, but let two or three thousand men go and destroy the city: why should all the people be troubled in vain against enemies that are very few?
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I Ki 14:6
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And Jonathan said to the young man that bore his armour: Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised, it may be the Lord will do for us, because it is easy for the Lord to save either by many, or by few.
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I Ki 17:28
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Now when Eliab his eldest brother heard this, when he was speaking with others, he was angry with David, and said: Why camest thou hither? and why didst thou leave those few sheep in the desert? I know thy pride, and the wickedness of thy heart: that thou art come down to see the battle.
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I Ki 18:27
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And after a few days David rose up, and went with the men that were under him, and he slew of the Philistines two hundred men, and brought their foreskins and numbered them out to the king, that he might be his son in law. Saul therefore gave him Michol his daughter to wife.
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IV Ki 4:3
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And he said to her: Go, borrow of all thy neighbours empty vessels not a few.
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I Par 16:19
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When they were but a small number: very few and sojourners in it.
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II Par 14:11
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And he called upon the Lord God, and said: Lord, there is no difference with thee, whether thou help with few, or with many: help us, O Lord our God: for with confidence in thee, and in thy name, we are come against this multitude. O Lord thou art our God, let not man prevail against thee.
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II Par 29:34
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But the priests were few, and were not enough to flay the holocausts: wherefore the Levites their brethren helped them, till the work was ended, and priests were sanctified, for the Levites are sanctified with an easier rite than the priests.
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II Esd 2:12
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And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me, and I told not any man what God had put in my heart to do in Jerusalem, and there was no beast with me, but the beast that I rode upon.
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II Esd 7:4
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And the city was very wide and great, and the people few in the midst thereof, and the houses were not built.
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Ps 16:14
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from the enemies of thy hand. O Lord, divide them from the few of the earth in their life: their belly is filled from thy hidden stores. They are full of children: and they have left to their little ones the rest of their substance.
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Ps 104:12
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When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein:
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Ps 106:39
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Then they were brought to be few: and they were afflicted through the trouble of evils and sorrow.
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Ps 108:8
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May his days be few: and his bishopric let another take.
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Eccles 5:1
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Speak not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
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Eccles 9:14
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A little city, and few men in it: there came against it a great king, and invested it, and built bulwarks round about it, and the siege was perfect.
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Wis 3:5
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Afflicted in few things, in many they shall be well rewarded: because God hath tried them, and found them worthy of himself.
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Eccli 7:34
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Give them their portion, as it is commanded thee, of the firstfruits and of purifications: and for thy negligences purify thyself with a few.
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Eccli 18:8
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The number of the days of men at the most are a hundred years: as a drop of water of the sea are they esteemed: and as a pebble of the sand, so are a few years compared to eternity.
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Eccli 20:15
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He will give a few things, and upbraid much: and the opening of his mouth is the kindling of a fire.
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Eccli 43:36
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There are many things hidden from us that are greater than these: for we have seen but a few of his works.
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Isa 10:7
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But he shall not take it so, and his heart shall not think so: but his heart shall be set to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.
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Isa 10:19
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And they that remain of the trees of his forest shall be so few, that they shall easily be numbered, and a child shall write them down.
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Isa 24:6
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Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore they that dwell therein shall be mad, and few men shall be left.
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Isa 24:13
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For it shall be thus in the midst of the earth, in the midst of the people, as if a few olives, that remain, should be shaken out of the olive tree: or grapes, when the vintage is ended.
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Jer 29:6
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Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters: and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, and let them bear sons and daughters: and be ye multiplied there, and be not few in number.
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Jer 30:19
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And out of them shall come forth praise, and the voice of them that play: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be made few: and I will glorify them, and they shall not be lessened.
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Jer 42:2
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And they said to Jeremias the prophet: Let our supplication fall before thee: and pray thou for us to the Lord thy God for all this remnant, for we are left but a few of many, as thy eyes do behold us.
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Jer 44:28
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And a few men that shall flee from the sword, shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Juda: and all the remnant of Juda that are gone into the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.
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Bar 2:13
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Let thy wrath be turned away from us: for we are left a few among the nations where thou hast scattered us.
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Ezech 12:16
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And I will leave a few men of them from the sword, and from the famine, and from the pestilence: that they may declare all their wicked deeds among the nations whither they shall go: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
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Dan 7:1
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In the first year of Baltasar king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream: and the vision of his head was upon his bed: and writing the dream, he comprehended it in few words: and relating the sum of it in short, he said:
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Dan 11:20
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And there shall stand up in his place, one most vile, and unworthy of kingly honour: and in a few days he shall be destroyed, not in rage nor in battle.
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I Mac 3:17
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But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to Judas: How shall we, being few, be able to fight against so great a multitude and so strong, and we are ready to faint with fasting to day?
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I Mac 3:18
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And Judas said: It is an easy matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few: and there is no difference in the sight of the God of heaven to deliver with a great multitude, or with a small company:
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I Mac 6:54
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And there remained in the holy places but a few, for the famine had prevailed over them: and they were dispersed every man to his own place.
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I Mac 7:1
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In the hundred and fifty-first year Demetrius the son of Seleucus departed from the city of Rome, and came up with a few men into a city of the sea coast, and reigned there.
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I Mac 7:28
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Saying: Let there be no fighting between me and you: I will come with a few men to see your faces with peace.
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I Mac 9:9
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But they dissuaded him, saying: We shall not be able, but let us save our lives now, and return to our brethren, and then we will fight against them: for we are but few.
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I Mac 12:45
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Now therefore send them back to their own houses: and choose thee a few men that may be with thee, and come with me to Ptolemais, and I will deliver it to thee, and the rest of the strong holds, and the army, and all that have any charge, and I will return and go away: for this is the cause of my coming.
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I Mac 15:10
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In the year one hundred and seventy-four Antiochus entered into the land of his fathers, and all the forces assembled to him, so that few were left with Tryphon.
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