Genesis 47:4

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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.*

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

There was a famine in the land. Avram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 15:13

He said to Avram, *Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

Genesis 43:1

The famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 45:10

You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children's children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.

Genesis 46:34

that you shall say, 'Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers:' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.*

Genesis 47:5

Par`oh spoke to Yosef, saying, *Your father and your brothers have come to you.

Psalm 105:23

Yisra'el also came into Egypt. Ya`akov sojourned in the land of Cham.

Isaiah 52:4

For thus says the Lord GOD, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Ashur has oppressed them without cause.

Acts 7:11

Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Kena`an, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

Acts 7:6

God spoke in this way: that his seed would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

Deuteronomy 26:5

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.