Numbers 20:15
How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
KJV
quomodo descenderint patres nostri in Ægyptum, et habitaverimus ibi multo tempore, afflixerintque nos Ægyptii, et patres nostros :
Vulgate
καὶ κατέβησαν οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν εἰς Αἴγυπτον, καὶ παρῳκήσαμεν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ ἡμέρας πλείους, καὶ ἐκάκωσαν ἡμᾶς οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι καὶ τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν·
LXX
how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:
ASV
וַ/יֵּרְד֤וּ אֲבֹתֵ֨י/נוּ֙ מִצְרַ֔יְמָ/ה וַ/נֵּ֥שֶׁב בְּ/מִצְרַ֖יִם יָמִ֣ים רַבִּ֑ים וַ/יָּרֵ֥עוּ לָ֛/נוּ מִצְרַ֖יִם וְ/לַ/אֲבֹתֵֽי/נוּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
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Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Acts 7:15 — So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
- Deut 26:6 — And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
- Exod 1:11 — Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
- Exod 1:14 — And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
- Exod 12:40 — Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
- 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 46:6 — And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: