Genesis 47:4

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Summary

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 to

For the famine

Genesis 43:1

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Let thy

Genesis 46:34

Bible References

For to

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

And he said to Abram, Know of a certainty that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs. And shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.

And thou shall answer and say before LORD thy God, My father was a Syrian ready to perish, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number. And he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.

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

For thus says lord LORD, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there. And the Assyrian has oppressed them without cause.

And God spoke thus: His seed would be alien in a foreign land, and they would enslave and mistreat them four hundred years.

For the famine

And the famine was severe in the land.

Now a famine came on all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers found no sustenance.

Let thy

that ye shall say, Thy servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers, that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.