Genesis 47:4

Tree of Life Version

Then they said to Pharaoh, “We came to dwell temporarily in the land, since there is no pasture for the flocks that belong to your servants, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”

Cross References

Genesis 46:34

you must say, ‘Your servants have been men who handle livestock since the time of our youth until now, both we and our fathers,’ so that you can live in the land of Goshen, because every shepherd is loathsome to the Egyptians.”

Deuteronomy 26:5

“Then you are to respond before Adonai your God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as an outsider, few in number. But there he became a great nation—mighty and numerous.

Genesis 15:13

Then He said to Abram, “Know for certain that your seed will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and they will be enslaved and oppressed 400 years.

Genesis 43:1

Now the famine was severe in the land.

Acts 7:11

“Famine and great suffering came over all Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could find no food.

Psalm 105:23

Then Israel came into Egypt, Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

Acts 7:6

“But God spoke in this way, that his ‘descendants would be foreigners in a land belonging to others, and they would enslave and mistreat them for four hundred years.

Isaiah 52:4

For thus says Adonai Elohim: “At first My people went down to Egypt to reside there, then the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.

Genesis 12:10

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live as an outsider there, because the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 47:5

Pharaoh said to Joseph saying, “Your father and your brothers came to you.

Genesis 45:10

Then you’ll live in the land of Goshen, and be close to me, you and your children and your children’s children, your flocks and your cattle, and everything that belongs to you.