New Revised Standard Version
When they were few in number, of little account, and strangers in the land,

Contemporary English Version
At the time there were only a few of us, and we were homeless.

New American Bible
When they were few in number, a handful, and strangers there,

Douay-Rheims Bible
When they were but a small number: very few and sojourners in it.

When they were but a small number: very few and sojourners in it.

but few [heb] but men of number

Genesis 34:30 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.

Acts 7:5 And he gave him no inheritance in it: no, not the pace of a foot. But he promised to give it him in possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

Hebrews 11:13 All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth.