Genesis 47:4

God's Word

We have come to live in this land for a while. The famine is so severe in Canaan that there’s no pasture for our flocks. So please let us live in Goshen.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

There was a famine in the land. Abram went to Egypt to stay awhile because the famine was severe.

Genesis 15:13

God said to Abram, “You can know for sure that your descendants will live in a land that is not their own, where they will be slaves, and they will be oppressed for 400 years.

Genesis 43:1

The famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 45:10

Live in the land of Goshen, where you will be near me. Live there with your children and your grandchildren, as well as your flocks, your herds, and everything you have.

Genesis 46:34

you must answer, ‘We have taken care of herds all our lives, as our ancestors have done.’ ⌞You must say this⌟ so that you may live in the region of Goshen, because all shepherds are disgusting to Egyptians.”

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. Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham.

Isaiah 52:4

This is what the Almighty Lord says: In the beginning my people went to Egypt to live there as foreigners. Later the Assyrians oppressed them for no reason.

Acts 7:11

Then a famine throughout Egypt and Canaan brought a lot of suffering. Our ancestors couldn’t find any food.

Acts 7:6

God told Abraham that his descendants would be foreigners living in another country and that the people there would make them slaves and mistreat them for 400 years.

Deuteronomy 26:5

You will make this formal statement in the presence of the Lord your God: “My ancestors were wandering Arameans. There were only a few of them when they went to Egypt and lived as foreigners. But then they became a great, powerful, and large nation.