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

Acts 7:11

Let thy

Genesis 46:34

Bible References

For to

And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.

And he said to Abram, Truly, your seed will be living in a land which is not theirs, as servants to a people who will be cruel to them for four hundred years;

And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:

Then Israel came into Egypt, and Jacob was living in the land of Ham.

For the Lord God says, My people went down at first into Egypt, to get a place for themselves there: and the Assyrian put a cruel yoke on them without cause.

And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

For the famine

Now the land was in bitter need of food.

Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.

Let thy

You are to say, Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our early days up to now, like our fathers; in this way you will be able to have the land of Goshen for yourselves; because keepers of sheep are unclean in the eyes of the Egyptians.