Genesis 47:4
Moreover, they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live temporarily (sojourn) in the land [of Egypt], for there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants [in our land], for the famine is very severe in Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”
Genesis 15:13
God said to Abram, “Know for sure that your descendants will be strangers [living temporarily] in a land (Egypt) that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
Genesis 46:34
you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth until now, both we and our fathers [before us],’ in order that you may live [separately and securely] in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is repulsive to the Egyptians.”
Deuteronomy 26:5
And you shall say before the Lord your God, ‘My father [Jacob] was a wandering Aramean, and he [along with his family] went down to Egypt and
Genesis 43:1
Now the famine was very severe in the land [of Canaan].
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, bringing great distress and our fathers could not find food [for their households and livestock].
Genesis 12:10
Now there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to live temporarily, for the famine in the land was oppressive and severe.
Isaiah 52:4
For the Lord God says this, “My people went down at the first into Egypt to live there; and [many years later Sennacherib] the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Acts 7:6
And this is, in effect, what God spoke [to him]: That his descendants would be aliens (strangers) in a foreign land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
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Israel also came into Egypt;
Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.