Genesis 47:4

Jacob Settles In Goshen

³ Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” So they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.” ⁴ They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, therefore, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.” ⁵ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

Dwell in the Land

Famine in the Land

Land of Canaan

Land of Goshen

Region Of Goshen

Canaan

Egypt

Goshen

No

Pharaoh

Genesis 15:13

God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years.

Genesis 46:34

you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ that you may live in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is loathsome to the Egyptians.”

Deuteronomy 26:5

You shall answer and say before the Lord your God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation.

Genesis 43:1

Now the famine was severe in the land.

Psalm 105:23

Israel also came into Egypt;
Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

Acts 7:11

“Now a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction with it, and our fathers could find no food.

Genesis 12:10

Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Isaiah 52:4

For thus says the Lord God, “My people went down at the first into Egypt to reside there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

Acts 7:6

But God spoke to this effect, that his descendants would be aliens in a foreign land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.