Genesis 47:4

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

we came into thy land to be pilgrims, that is, to dwell for a time, for no grass is to the flocks of thy servants; for hunger waxeth grievous in the land of Canaan, and we ask that thou command us thy servants to be in the land of Goshen.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

Soothly hunger was made in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt, to be a pilgrim there, for hunger had the mastery in the land.

Genesis 15:13

And it was said to him, Know thou a before-knowing, that thy seed shall be [a] pilgrim four hundred years in a land not his own, and they shall make them subject to servage, and they shall torment them;

Genesis 43:1

In the meantime hunger oppressed greatly all the land,

Genesis 45:10

and dwell in the land of Goshen; and thou shalt be beside me, thou, and thy sons, and the sons of thy sons, thy sheep, and thy great beasts, and all things which thou wieldest,

Genesis 46:34

ye shall answer, We be thy servants, men shepherds, from our childhood till into this present time, both we and our fathers. Soothly ye shall say these things, that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen, for Egyptians loathe all keepers of sheep.

Genesis 47:5

And so the king said to Joseph, Thy father and thy brethren have come to thee;

Psalm 105:23

And Israel entered into Egypt; and Jacob was a comeling in the land of Ham.

Isaiah 52:4

For the Lord God saith these things, My people in the beginning went down into Egypt, that it should be there an earth-tiller, either a comeling, and Assur falsely challenged it without any cause.

Acts 7:11

And hunger came into all Egypt, and Canaan, and great tribulation; and our fathers found not meat.

Acts 7:6

And God spake to him, That his seed shall be [a] comeling [or a guest] in an alien land, and they shall make them subject to servage, and shall evil treat them, four hundred years and thirty [or four hundred years];

Deuteronomy 26:5

And thou shalt say in the sight of thy Lord God, Syrian pursued my father, that went down into Egypt, and was a pilgrim there in fewest number; and he increased into a great folk, and strong, and of multitude without number.