Genesis 47:27
The Israelites settled in Goshen in Egypt where they became prosperous landowners and rapidly increased in number.
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28Jacob lived in Egypt for seventeen years, so he lived in total 147 years.
Cross References
Genesis 8:7and sent a raven out. It flew back and forth until the water on the earth had dried up.
Genesis 13:16You will have so many descendants that they'll be like the dust of the earth. If anyone could count dust then they could count the number of your descendants!
Genesis 26:4I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your descendants,
Genesis 46:3“I am God, the God of your father! Don't be afraid to go to Egypt, because I will turn you and your descendants into a great nation.
Exodus 1:12But the more the Israelites were mistreated, the more they grew in numbers and spread out—and the more the Egyptians detested them.
Deuteronomy 26:5Then this is what you are to publicly declare before the Lord your God, “My father was an Aramean who moved from place to place. There were only a few of them when he and his family went to live in Egypt. But they became a large and powerful nation.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 47:14-27
Distressed Occasioned by the Famine. ( b. c. 1706.) 13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. 15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said,… Read the whole commentary →