Genesis 47:4
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4 They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to reside as aliens in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, we ask you, let your servants settle in the land of Goshen.”(A)
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Genesis 46:34
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34 you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our ancestors,’ in order that you may settle in the land of Goshen, because all shepherds are abhorrent to the Egyptians.”(A)
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Deuteronomy 26:5
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5 you shall make this response before the Lord your God: ‘A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous.(A)
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Genesis 15:13
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13 Then the Lord[a] said to Abram, “Know this for certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years,(A)
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Genesis 43:1
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The Brothers Come Again, Bringing Benjamin
43 Now the famine was severe in the land.(A)
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Acts 7:11
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11 Now there came a famine throughout Egypt and Canaan and great suffering, and our ancestors could find no food.(A)
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Psalm 105:23
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23 Then Israel came to Egypt;
Jacob lived as an alien in the land of Ham.(A)
Acts 7:6
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6 And God spoke in these terms, that his descendants would be resident aliens in a country belonging to others, who would enslave them and mistreat them during four hundred years.(A)
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Isaiah 52:4
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4 For thus says the Lord God: Long ago, my people went down into Egypt to reside there as aliens; the Assyrian, too, has oppressed them without cause.(A)
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Genesis 12:10
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Abram and Sarai in Egypt
10 Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.
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