Genesis 47:27

New International Reader's Version

The people of Israel lived in Egypt in the area of Goshen. They received property there. They had children and so became many.

Cross References

Genesis 13:16

I will make them like the dust of the earth. Can dust be counted? If it can, then your family can be counted.

Genesis 17:6

I will greatly increase the number of your children after you. Nations and kings will come from you.

Genesis 26:4

I will make your children after you as many as the stars in the sky. And I will give them all these lands. All nations on earth will be blessed because of your children.

Genesis 28:14

They will be like the dust of the earth that can’t be counted. They will spread out to the west and to the east. They will spread out to the north and to the south. All nations on earth will be blessed because of you and your children after you.

Genesis 34:10

You can live among us. Here is the land. Live in it. Trade in it. Buy property in it.”

Genesis 35:11

God said to him, “I am the Mighty God. Have children so that there will be many of you. You will become the father of a nation and a community of nations. Your later family will include kings.

Genesis 46:3

“I am God. I am the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt. There I will make you into a great nation.

Genesis 47:11

So Joseph helped his father and his brothers make their homes in Egypt. He gave them property in the best part of the land, just as Pharaoh had directed him to do. That part was known as the territory of Rameses.

Genesis 8:7

He sent out a raven. It kept flying back and forth until the water on the earth had dried up.

Genesis 8:9

But the dove couldn’t find any place to rest. Water still covered the whole surface of the earth. So the dove returned to Noah in the ark. Noah reached out his hand and took the dove in. He brought it back to himself in the ark.

Nehemiah 9:23

You gave them as many children as there are stars in the sky. You told their parents to enter the land. You told them to take it over. And you brought their children into it.

Psalm 105:24

The Lord gave his people so many children that there were too many of them for their enemies.

Psalm 107:38

He blessed the people, and they greatly increased their numbers. He kept their herds from getting smaller.

Exodus 1:12

But the worse the slave drivers treated the Israelites, the more Israelites there were. So the Egyptians became afraid of them.

Exodus 1:7

The people of Israel had many children. The number of them greatly increased. There were so many of them that they filled the land.

Zechariah 10:8

I will signal for my people to come, and I will gather them in. I will set them free. There will be as many of them as before.

Acts 7:17

“In Egypt the number of our people grew and grew. It was nearly time for God to make his promise to Abraham come true.

Deuteronomy 10:22

Long ago, your people went down into Egypt. The total number of them was 70. And now the Lord your God has made you as many as the stars in the sky.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then you will speak while the Lord is listening. You will say, “My father Jacob was a wanderer from the land of Aram. He went down into Egypt with a few people. He lived there and became the father of a great nation. It had huge numbers of people.