They said to Par`oh, *We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Kena`an. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.*
You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.