Genesis 47:4

Modern English Version

They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for your servants have no pasture for their flocks, because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please allow your servants to dwell in the land of Goshen.”

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

Now there was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 15:13

Then He said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will live as strangers in a land that is not theirs, and they will be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

Genesis 43:1

Now the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 45:10

And you will dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near me, you and your children and your children’s children, along with your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.

Genesis 46:34

you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ so that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, because every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”

Genesis 47:5

Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

Psalm 105:23

Israel also came to Egypt, and Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.

Isaiah 52:4

For thus says the Lord God: My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

Acts 7:11

“Then a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan with great affliction, and our fathers found no sustenance.

Acts 7:6

God spoke in this way, ‘Your descendants shall be sojourners in a land belonging to others, who will enslave them and mistreat them four hundred years.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then you must answer and say before the Lord your God, “A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with only a few in number, but there he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.