Genesis 47:4

And they said to Pharaoh, For we have come to live in the land. For your servants have no pasture left for their flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

Genesis 15:13

And He said to Abram, You must surely know that your seed shall be a stranger in a land not theirs, and shall serve them. And they shall afflict them four hundred years.

Genesis 46:34

Then you shall say, Your servants have been men of cattle from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers, so that you may live in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.

Deuteronomy 26:5

And you shall speak and say before Jehovah your God, My father was a Syrian ready to perish. And he went down to Egypt, and stayed there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and many.

Genesis 43:1

And the famine was severe in the land.

Psalm 105:23

Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob resided in the land of Ham.

Acts 7:11

But a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and a great affliction. And our fathers found no food.

Genesis 12:10

And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to stay there, for the famine was grievous in the land.

Isaiah 52:4

For so says the Lord Jehovah, My people went down before into Egypt to stay there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

Acts 7:6

And God spoke in this way, that his seed would be a tenant in another land, and that they would enslave it and oppress it four hundred years.

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They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

For the famine

Let thy

Bible References

For to

Genesis 12:10
And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down into Egypt to stay there, for the famine was grievous in the land.
Genesis 15:13
And He said to Abram, You must surely know that your seed shall be a stranger in a land not theirs, and shall serve them. And they shall afflict them four hundred years.
Deuteronomy 26:5
And you shall speak and say before Jehovah your God, My father was a Syrian ready to perish. And he went down to Egypt, and stayed there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and many.
Psalm 105:23
Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob resided in the land of Ham.
Isaiah 52:4
For so says the Lord Jehovah, My people went down before into Egypt to stay there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Acts 7:6
And God spoke in this way, that his seed would be a tenant in another land, and that they would enslave it and oppress it four hundred years.

For the famine

Genesis 43:1
And the famine was severe in the land.
Acts 7:11
But a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and a great affliction. And our fathers found no food.

Let thy

Genesis 46:34
Then you shall say, Your servants have been men of cattle from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers, so that you may live in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.