They tooktheir livestockand their property,whichthey had acquiredin the landof Canaan,and cameto Egypt,Jacoband allhis descendantswith him:
[God] saidto Abram,"Knowfor certainthat your descendantswill be strangersin a landthat is not theirs,where they will be enslavedand oppressedfourhundredyears.
his sonsand his grandsonswith him, his daughtersand his granddaughters,and allhis descendantshe broughtwith him to Egypt.
Israelalso cameinto Egypt;Thus Jacobsojournedin the landof Ham.
For thussaysthe LordGOD,"My peoplewentdownat the firstinto Egyptto residethere;then the Assyrianoppressedthem withoutcause.
that our fatherswentdownto Egypt,and we stayedin Egypta longtime,and the Egyptianstreatedus and our fathersbadly.
"And Jacobwent downto Egyptand [there] he and our fathersdied.
"Your fatherswentdownto Egyptseventypersons[in all], and nowthe LORDyour Godhas madeyou as numerousas the starsof heaven.
"You shall answerand saybeforethe LORDyour God,My fatherwas a wanderingAramean,and he wentdownto Egyptand sojournedthere,fewin number;but therehe becamea great,mightyand populousnation.
To IsaacI gaveJacoband Esau,and to EsauI gaveMountSeirto possessit; but Jacoband his sonswentdownto Egypt.
"WhenJacobwentinto Egyptand your fatherscriedout to the LORD,then the LORDsentMosesand Aaronwho broughtyour fathersout of Egyptand settledthem in thisplace.
