Genesis 47:4

Easy To Read Version

They said to Pharaoh, “The time of hunger is very bad in Canaan. There are no fields left with grass for our animals. So we have come to live in this land. We ask you to please let us live in Goshen.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

During this time, the land was very dry. There was no rain, and no food was able to grow. So Abram went down to Egypt to live.

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to Abram, “You should know these things: Your descendants will live in a country that is not their own. They will be strangers there. And the people there will make them slaves and do bad things to them for 400 years.

Genesis 43:1

The time of hunger was very bad in that country.

Genesis 45:10

You can live near me in the land of Goshen. You, your children, your grandchildren, and all of your animals are welcome here.

Genesis 46:34

You tell him, ‘We are shepherds. All our lives we have been shepherds. And our ancestors [249] were shepherds before us.’ Then Pharaoh will allow you to live in the land of Goshen. Egyptian people don’t like shepherds, so it is better that you stay in Goshen.”

Genesis 47:5

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

Psalm 105:23

Then Israel came to Egypt.\par Jacob lived in Ham’s country. {\cf2\super [551]} \par

Isaiah 52:4

The Lord my Master says, “My people first went down to Egypt to stay—\{and then they became slaves\}. Later, Assyria made them slaves.

Acts 7:11

But all the land of Egypt and of Canaan became dry. It became so dry that food could not grow there. This made the people suffer very much. Our fathers could not find anything to eat.

Acts 7:6

This is what God said to him: ‘Your descendants {\cf2\super [123]} will live in another country. They will be strangers. The people there will make them slaves and do bad things to them for 400 years.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then there before the Lord your God you will say: ‘My ancestor was a wandering Aramean. [157] He went down into Egypt and stayed there. When he went there, he had only a few people in his family. But in Egypt he became a great nation—a powerful nation with many people.