⁴ And they said to Pharaoh, ^(A)“We have come to dwell in the land, because your servants have no pasture for their flocks, ^(B)for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants ^(C)dwell in the land of Goshen.”

³⁴ that you shall say, ‘Your servants’ ^(A)occupation has been with livestock ^(B)from our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is ^(C)an^[a] abomination to the Egyptians.”

⁵ And you shall answer and say before the Lord your God: ‘My father was ^(A)a ^[a]Syrian, ^(B)about to perish, and ^(C)he went down to Egypt and ^[b]dwelt there, ^(D)few in number; and there he became a nation, ^(E)great, mighty, and populous.

¹³ Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly ^(A)that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and ^(B)they will afflict them four hundred years.

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43 Now the famine was ^(A)severe in the land.

^11 (A)Now a famine and great ^[a]trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance.

⁶ But God spoke in this way: ^(A)that his descendants would dwell in a foreign land, and that they would bring them into ^(B)bondage and oppress them four hundred years.

⁴ For thus says the Lord God: