Genesis 47:4
They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
KJV
Ad peregrinandum in terra tua venimus : quoniam non est herba gregibus servorum tuorum, ingravescente fame in terra Chanaan : petimusque ut esse nos jubeas servos tuos in terra Gessen.
Vulgate
εἶπαν δὲ τῷ Φαραώ Παροικεῖν ἐν τῇ γῇ ἥκαμεν· οὐ γάρ ἐστιν νομὴ τοῖς κτήνεσιν τῶν παίδων σου, ἐνίσχυσεν γὰρ ὁ λιμὸς ἐν γῇ Χανάαν· νῦν οὖν κατοικήσομεν ἐν γῇ Γέσεμ.
LXX
And they said unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants’ flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
ASV
וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ אֶל פַּרְעֹ֗ה לָ/ג֣וּר בָּ/אָרֶץ֮ בָּאנוּ֒ כִּי אֵ֣ין מִרְעֶ֗ה לַ/צֹּאן֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לַ/עֲבָדֶ֔י/ךָ כִּֽי כָבֵ֥ד הָ/רָעָ֖ב בְּ/אֶ֣רֶץ כְּנָ֑עַן וְ/עַתָּ֛ה יֵֽשְׁבוּ נָ֥א עֲבָדֶ֖י/ךָ בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ גֹּֽשֶׁן
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
19 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Acts 7:11 — Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
- Deut 26:5 — And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and
- Gen 15:13 — And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
- Gen 43:1 — And the famine was sore in the land.
- Gen 46:34 — That ye shall say, Thy servants’ trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and also our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abominatio
- Gen 47:6 — The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make the
- Ps 105:23 — Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.