Devine Scripture

Genesis 47:4

Genesis chapter 47 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.3And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers.

v.4This passage

v.5And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 52:4

    For thus saith the Lord Jehovah, My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there: and the Assyrian hath oppressed them without cause.

  • Acts 7:6

    And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat them ill, four hundred years.

  • Genesis 15:13

    And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

  • Genesis 12:10

    And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.

  • Acts 7:11

    Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

  • Psalms 105:23

    Israel also came into Egypt; And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.