Genesis 47:4

New International Version

They also said to him, “We have come to live here for a while, because the famine is severe in Canaan and your servants’ flocks have no pasture. So now, please let your servants settle in Goshen.”

Cross References

Genesis 46:34

you should answer, ‘Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then you shall declare before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous.

Genesis 15:13

Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.

Genesis 43:1

Now the famine was still severe in the land.

Acts 7:11

“Then a famine struck all Egypt and Canaan, bringing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.

Psalm 105:23

Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob resided as a foreigner in the land of Ham.

Acts 7:6

God spoke to him in this way: ‘For four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated.

Isaiah 52:4

For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “At first my people went down to Egypt to live; lately, Assyria has oppressed them.

Genesis 12:10

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

Genesis 47:5

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you,

Genesis 45:10

You shall live in the region of Goshen and be near me—you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have.