Matthew Poole and continuators on 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.

So Iacob 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, as is confessed by Strabo, b. 16. and by Pliny, b. 5. c. 12. partly by his education and conversation, for which reason Christ is called a Nazarite, and a Capernaite, and partly by his relations, his wives being such, and his children too by their mothers.

Either through want and poverty; see Gen. 28. 11, 20▪ and 32. 10. or through the rage of my brother Esau, and the treachery and cruelty of my father in law Laban.

Marginal references: Gen. 46. 1.