Egypt in the Bible
Meaning: that troubles or oppresses; anguish
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And the sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
And Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:
And I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they will say, This is his wife: and they will put me to death and keep you.
And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
God said to Abram, “Know for sure that your descendants will be strangers [living temporarily] in a land (Egypt) that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
And they dwelt from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite to Egypt, as one goes towards Assyria. He settled before the face of all his brethren.
And Jehovah appeared to him and said, Go not down to Egypt: dwell in the land that I shall tell thee of.
And they sat down to eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites came from Gilead; and their camels bore tragacanth, and balsam, and ladanum going to carry it down to Egypt.
And Midianitish men, merchants, passed by; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty silver-pieces; and they brought Joseph to Egypt.
And the Midianites sold him into Egypt, to Potiphar, a chamberlain of Pharaoh, the captain of the life-guard.
And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, a chamberlain of Pharaoh, the captain of the life-guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down thither.
And it came to pass after these things, that the cup-bearer of the king of Egypt and the baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.
And they dreamed a dream, both of them in one night, each his dream, each according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup-bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were imprisoned in the tower-house.
And it came to pass in the morning, that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the scribes of Egypt, and all the sages who were therein, and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none to interpret them to Pharaoh.
And behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor, and very ill-formed, and lean-fleshed such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout the land of Egypt.
And there will arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will waste away the land.
And now let Pharaoh look himself out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Let Pharaoh do this: let him appoint overseers over the land, and take the fifth part of the land of Egypt during the seven years of plenty,
And let the food be as store for the land for the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt, that the land perish not through the famine.
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
And he caused him to ride in the second chariot that he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee! and he set him over all the land of Egypt.
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.
And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah, and gave him as wife Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh, and passed through the whole land of Egypt.
And he gathered up all the food of the seven years that was in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities; the food of the fields of the city, which were round about it, he laid up in it.
And the seven years of plenty that were in the land of Egypt were ended;
and the seven years of the dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said. And there was dearth in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
And all the land of Egypt suffered from the dearth. And the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph: what he says to you, that do.
And the famine was on all the earth. And Joseph opened every place in which there was provision, and sold grain to the Egyptians; and the famine was grievous in the land of Egypt.
And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was grievous on the whole earth.
And Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down thither and buy grain for us from thence, in order that we may live, and not die.
And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy grain out of Egypt.
Israel's sons went in a caravan that included others who were going to Egypt to buy grain, because the famine pervaded the land of Canaan, too.
And it happened [that] as they finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt their father said to them, "Return and buy a little food for us."
If you will send our brother with us, we will go down [to Egypt] and buy you food.
So the men took this gift, and they took double money in their hands, and Benjamin, and they rose up and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.
So Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." And they drew near. And he said, "I [am] Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
"I'm your brother Joseph, whom you sold into slavery in Egypt!" he told them. "But don't be distressed or angry at yourselves because you sold me here, because God sent me ahead of you all in order to deliver us.
So now, you yourselves did not send me here, but God put me here as father to Pharaoh and as master of all his household, and a ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Hurry, and go up to my father and say to him, 'Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me and do not delay.
And you must tell my father of all my honor in Egypt and all that you have seen. Now hurry and bring my father here."
and take your father and your households and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.'
And you [Joseph], are commanded [to say] this: 'Do this! Take wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and your wives, and bring your father and come!
{Do not worry} about your possessions, for the best of all the land of Egypt is yours.'"
And to his father he sent {as follows}: ten donkeys carrying the best of Egypt, and ten donkeys carrying grain and food and provisions for his father for the journey.
So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan to Jacob their father.
And they spoke to him, saying, "Joseph [is] still alive, and he [is] ruler over all the land of Egypt." And his heart {went numb}, because he did not believe him.
Then he said, "I [am] the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you a great nation there.
I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I myself will also bring you up. And Joseph will place his hand over your eyes."
And they took their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in the land of Canaan. And they came to Egypt, Jacob and all his offspring with him,
his sons and his sons' sons with him, his daughters and his daughters' daughters with him, into Egypt.
Now these [are] the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, the firstborn of Jacob
And Ephraim and Manasseh, whom Asenath, daughter of Potiphera, priest of On bore to him, were born to Joseph in the land of Egypt.
All the persons belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt {who were his descendants}, not including the wives of the sons of Jacob [were] sixty-six persons in all.
And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt [were] two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who came to Egypt [were] seventy.
The land of Egypt [is] before you. Settle your father and your brothers in the best of the land. Let them live in the land of Goshen, and if you know there is among them men of ability, then appoint them overseers of my own livestock."
And Joseph settled his father and his brothers, and he gave them property in the land of Egypt in the best part of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had instructed.
Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine [was] very severe. And the land of Egypt languished, with the land of Canaan, on account of the famine.
And Joseph collected all the money found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain that they were buying. And Joseph brought the money into the house of Pharaoh.
And when the money was spent in the land of Egypt and from the land of Canaan, all of Egypt came to Joseph, saying, "Give us food! Why should we die before you? For the money is used up."
So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for each Egyptian sold his field, for the famine [was] severe upon them. And the land became Pharaoh's.
As for the people, he transferred them to the cities, from one end of the territory of Egypt to the other.
So Joseph made it a statute unto this day concerning the land of Egypt: one fifth to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests alone did not belong to Pharaoh.
So Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they acquired possessions in it and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. And the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred and forty-seven years.
When {the time of Israel's death drew near}, he called to his son, to Joseph. And he said to him, "If I have found favor in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, that you might [vow] to deal kindly and faithfully with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,
but let me lie with my ancestors. Carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial site." And he said, "I will do according to your word."
And now, your two sons who were born to you in the land of Egypt before my coming to you in Egypt, are mine. Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine as Reuben and Simeon [are].
"These are my sons," Joseph replied. "God gave them to me here in Egypt." "Please bring them close to me," Jacob said, "so I can bless them."
So Joseph went up to bury his father. And all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, went up with him,
And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning at the grain floor of thorns, and they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians. Therefore they called its name, Meadow of Egypt, which is beyond Jordan.
And after burying his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, he and his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.
So Joseph remained in Egypt, he and the house of his father. And Joseph lived one hundred and ten years.
So Joseph died, [being] one hundred and ten years old. They embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
And these [are] the names of the sons of Israel who came [to] Egypt; with Jacob, they each came with his {family}:
And {all those who descended from Jacob} were seventy individuals, and Joseph was in Egypt.
And a new king rose over Egypt who did not know Joseph.
And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives--of whom the name of the one [was] Shiphrah and the name of the second [was] Puah--
But the midwives feared God, and they did not do as the king of Egypt had said to them. They let the boys live.
And the king of Egypt summoned the midwives, and he said to them, "Why have you done this thing and let the boys live?"
And the midwives answered Pharaoh, that the Hebrews' women were not as the women of Egypt: but were sturdy women, and were delivered yer the midwives came at them.
{And then} during those many days, the king of Egypt died, and the {Israelites} groaned because of the work, and they cried out, and their cry for help because of the work went up to God.
And Yahweh said, "Surely I have seen the misery of my people who [are] in Egypt, and I have heard their cry of distress because of their oppressors, for I know their sufferings.
And now come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and [you must] bring my people, the {Israelites}, out from Egypt."
But Moses said to God, "Who [am] I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the {Israelites} out from Egypt?"
And he said, "Because I am with you, and this [will be] the sign for you that I myself have sent you: When you bring the people out from Egypt, you will serve God on this mountain."
Go and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, "I have carefully attended to you and what has been done to you in Egypt."
And I said, "I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey." '
And they will listen to your voice, and you will go, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you will say to him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews has met with us, and now let us please go [on] a journey of three days into the desert, and let us sacrifice to Yahweh our God.'
But I myself know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go {unless compelled by a strong hand}.
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Egypt » Prophecies against
Egypt » Often a refuge to strangers
Egypt » River, or brook (rv), of: perhaps identical with sihor, which see [sihor→] » A small stream flowing into the mediterranean sea, the western boundary of the land promised to the children of israel
Egypt » Inhabitants of » Often intermarried with strangers
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Captivity of its people
Egypt » Subject to plague, &c
Egypt » Religion of, idolatrous
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Utter desolation of, for forty years
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Destruction of its idols
Egypt » Exports of
Egypt » History of israel in » Israel placed in the land of goshen
Egypt » The armies of » Assistance of, sought by judah against the chaldees
Egypt » Called » The south
Egypt » Idolatry of, followed by israel
Egypt » Productions of
Egypt » Magi of
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Invasion by babylon
Egypt » History of israel in » Jacob's death and burial
Egypt » Peopled by mizraim's posterity
Egypt » Inhabitants of » Hospitable
Egypt » Ruled by kings who assumed the name of pharaoh
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Infatuation of its princes
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Dismay of its inhabitants
Egypt » Celebrated for » Fertility
Egypt » History of israel in » Moses proves his divine mission by miracles
Egypt » History of israel in » Date of the exodus
Egypt » History of israel in » Joseph sold into
Egypt » As a power, was » Treacherous
Egypt » Celebrated for » Commerce
Egypt » Had princes and counsellors
Egypt » Watered by the nile
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Allies to share its misfortunes
Egypt » Celebrated for » Fine linen, &c
Egypt » As a power, was » Proud and arrogant
Egypt » Called » The land of ham
Egypt » Magic practised in
Egypt » Called » House of bondmen
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Christ to be called out of
Egypt » Celebrated for » Literature
Egypt » Called » Rahab
Egypt » Army of destroyed in the red sea
Egypt » Dry climate of
Egypt » History of israel in » Egypt is plagued for pharaoh's obstinacy
Egypt » Land of ham
Egypt » Armies of
Egypt » Abraham lives in
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » The jews who practised its idolatry to share its punishments
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Spoil of, a reward to babylon for services against tyre
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Prophetic illustration of its destruction
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Armies destroyed by babylon
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Destruction of its cities
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Destruction of its power
Egypt » History of israel in » Joseph's successful provision against the years of famine
Egypt » History of israel in » Joseph interprets pharaoh's dreams
Egypt » History of israel in » Pharaoh invites jacob into
Egypt » History of israel in » Joseph enriches the king
Egypt » History of israel in » Joseph counsels pharaoh
Egypt » History of israel in » Joseph made governor
Egypt » Inhabitants of » Might be received into the congregation in the third generation
Egypt » Inhabitants of » Not to be abhorred by israel
Egypt » Celebrated for » Fine horses
Egypt » The armies of » Besieged and plundered jerusalem in rehoboam's time
Egypt » The armies of » Deposed jehoahaz and made judea tributary
Egypt » Mode of entertaining in
Egypt » Under a governor
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » To be numbered and blessed along with israel
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Terror occasioned by its fall
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Conversion of
Egypt » History of israel in » Joseph interprets the chief baker's and the chief butler's dreams
Egypt » History of israel in » Joseph unjustly cast into prison
Egypt » History of israel in » Jacob, &c presented to pharaoh
Egypt » History of israel in » Destruction of the first-born
Egypt » History of israel in » Joseph sends for his father
Egypt » History of israel in » Israel spoil the egyptians
Egypt » History of israel in » Israel driven out of
Egypt » The armies of » Destroyed in the red sea
Egypt » Priests of
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Failure of internal resources
Egypt » History of israel in » Pharaoh pursues israel and is miraculously destroyed
Egypt » History of israel in » Joseph makes himself known to his brethren
Egypt » History of israel in » Potiphar blessed for joseph's sake
Egypt » History of israel in » Joseph recognizes his brethren
Egypt » History of israel in » Joseph's ten brethren arrive
Egypt » History of israel in » Male children destroyed
Egypt » History of israel in » The passover instituted
Egypt » History of israel in » Moses slays an egyptian
Egypt » History of israel in » Jacob's journey
Egypt » Famine in
Egypt » Rahab
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Ever to be a base kingdom
Egypt » History of israel in » Moses adopted and brought up by pharaoh's daughter
Egypt » History of israel in » Israel increase and are oppressed
Egypt » History of israel in » Their sojourn in it, foretold
Egypt » History of israel in » Moses sent to pharaoh
Egypt » History of israel in » Benjamin brought
Egypt » As a power, was » Ambitious of conquests
Egypt » As a power, was » Pompous
Egypt » Inhabitants of » Abhorred shepherds
Egypt » As a power, was » Mighty
Egypt » Celebrated for » Wealth
Egypt » The armies of » Invaded assyria and killed josiah who assisted it
Egypt » The armies of » Described
Egypt » Sometimes visited by famine
Egypt » Boundaries of
Egypt » History of israel in » Moses exposed on the nile
Egypt » The armies of » Captured and burned gezer
Egypt » Mode of embalming in
Egypt » Diet used in
Egypt » Of horses
Egypt » Prophecies respecting » Civil war
Egypt » History of israel in » Moses flees to midian
Egypt » Inhabitants of » Abhorred the sacrifice of oxen, &c
Egypt » Inhabitants of » Superstitious
Egypt » Called » Sihor
Egypt » The king acquires title to land of
Egypt » Overflowed by the nile river
Egypt » Imports of
Egypt » History of israel in » Moses born and hid for three months
Egypt » Joseph takes jesus to
Then Herod, when he saw that he was baffled by the wise-men, was very much enraged; and he sent and slew all the male-children in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly inquired of the wise-men. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremias the prophet, saying, In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel bewailing her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, Arise and take the child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they, that sought the child's life, are dead.