Genesis 47:4

Free Bible Version

“We have come to live in Egypt because there's no grass left in Canaan for our flocks to eat,” they explained. “The famine is really bad in Canaan. So we would like to please ask permission to live in Goshen.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

But the land had been hit by famine. So Abram continued on to Egypt, planning to live there because the famine was so bad.

Genesis 15:13

The Lord explained to Abram, “You can be absolutely sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be slaves and mistreated for 400 years.

Genesis 43:1

The famine continued to be really bad in Canaan,

Genesis 45:10

You'll live in the land of Goshen so you can be close to me with your children and grandchildren, and with your flocks and herds and everything that belongs to you.

Genesis 46:34

tell him, ‘Your servants have looked after livestock since we were children, both us and our fathers before us.’ That way you'll be able to live here in Goshen, because Egyptians look down on shepherds.”

Genesis 47:5

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Now that your father and brothers have arrived to join you,

Psalm 105:23

Then Israel entered Egypt—Jacob settled as a foreigner in the land of Ham.

Isaiah 52:4

This is what the Lord God says: First of all, my people went to live in Egypt, then Assyria conquered them for no reason.

Acts 7:11

Now a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan. It caused terrible misery, and our forefathers had no food.

Acts 7:6

God also told him that his descendants would live in a foreign country, and that they would be enslaved there, and would be mistreated for four hundred years.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then this is what you are to publicly declare before the Lord your God, “My father was an Aramean who moved from place to place. There were only a few of them when he and his family went to live in Egypt. But they became a large and powerful nation.