Genesis 46:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt.

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  • Josh 24:4 : 4 and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned Mount Seir, while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
  • Ps 105:23 : 23 Israel moved to Egypt; Jacob lived for a time in the land of Ham.
  • Isa 52:4 : 4 For this is what the Sovereign LORD says:“In the beginning my people went to live temporarily in Egypt; Assyria oppressed them for no good reason.
  • Acts 7:15 : 15 So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,
  • Deut 26:5 : 5 Then you must affirm before the LORD your God,“A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner with a household few in number, but there he became a great, powerful, and numerous people.
  • 1 Sam 12:8 : 8 When Jacob entered Egypt, your ancestors cried out to the LORD. The LORD sent Moses and Aaron, and they led your ancestors out of Egypt and settled them in this place.
  • Gen 15:13 : 13 Then the LORD said to Abram,“Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.
  • Num 20:15 : 15 how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.
  • Deut 10:22 : 22 When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.

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  • 7 He brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters– all his descendants.

  • Gen 46:4-5
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    4 I will go down with you to Egypt and I myself will certainly bring you back from there. Joseph will close your eyes.”

    5 Then Jacob started out from Beer Sheba, and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little children, and their wives in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent along to transport him.

  • 25 So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 31:17-18
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    17 So Jacob immediately put his children and his wives on the camels.

    18 He took away all the livestock he had acquired in Paddan Aram and all his moveable property that he had accumulated. Then he set out toward the land of Canaan to return to his father Isaac.

  • Gen 46:31-32
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    31 Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father’s household,“I will go up and tell Pharaoh,‘My brothers and my father’s household who were in the land of Canaan have come to me.

    32 The men are shepherds; they take care of livestock. They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’

  • 26 All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number.(This number does not include the wives of Jacob’s sons.)

  • 1 ¶ Blessing during Bondage in Egypt These are the names of the sons of Israel who entered Egypt– each man with his household entered with Jacob:

  • Gen 50:7-9
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    7 So Joseph went up to bury his father; all Pharaoh’s officials went with him– the senior courtiers of his household, all the senior officials of the land of Egypt,

    8 all Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.

    9 Chariots and horsemen also went up with him, so it was a very large entourage.

  • 1 Joseph’s Wise Administration Joseph went and told Pharaoh,“My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen.”

  • 6 Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, all the people in his household, his livestock, his animals, and all his possessions which he had acquired in the land of Canaan and went to a land some distance away from Jacob his brother

  • 5 All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,

  • 29 They returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan and told him all the things that had happened to them, saying,

  • Acts 7:14-15
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    14 So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.

    15 So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,

  • Gen 45:17-19
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    17 Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Say to your brothers,‘Do this: Load your animals and go to the land of Canaan!

    18 Get your father and your households and come to me! Then I will give you the best land in Egypt and you will eat the best of the land.’

    19 You are also commanded to say,‘Do this: Take for yourselves wagons from the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives. Bring your father and come.

  • 28 Jacob sent Judah before him to Joseph to accompany him to Goshen. So they came to the land of Goshen.

  • 28 They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.

  • 5 So Israel’s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.

  • 14 After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.

  • 7 Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

  • 1 Joseph’s Brothers in Egypt When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons,“Why are you looking at each other?”

  • 1 The Family of Jacob goes to Egypt So Israel began his journey, taking with him all that he had. When he came to Beer Sheba he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

  • 3 So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

  • 5 Pharaoh said to Joseph,“Your father and your brothers have come to you.