Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Bible References

For to

Acts 7:6
God declar'd likewise, "that his posterity should sojourn in a strange land, where they should be enslaved and abused four hundred years.

For the famine

Acts 7:11
in the mean time a famine spread over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, so that our fathers did not know where to get provisions.