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

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

Then you must affirm before the Lord your God, "A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.

Israel moved to Egypt; Jacob lived for a time in the land of Ham.

For this is what the sovereign Lord says: "In the beginning my people went to live temporarily in Egypt; Assyria oppressed them for no good reason.

But God spoke as follows: 'Your descendants will be foreigners in a foreign country, whose citizens will enslave them and mistreat them for four hundred years.

For the famine

Now the famine was severe in the land.

Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.

Let thy

Tell him, 'Your servants have taken care of cattle from our youth until now, both we and our fathers,' so that you may live in the land of Goshen, for everyone who takes care of sheep is disgusting to the Egyptians."