Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”
you are to say, ‘Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.’ Then you will be all
and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in nu
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own,
Now the famine was still severe in the land.
Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.
Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.
For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without
Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated