Genesis 46:3-7
46:3 He said, “I am God,
the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
46:4 I will go down with you to Egypt and I myself will certainly bring you back from there.
Joseph will close your eyes.”
46:5 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.
46:6 Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt.
46:7 He brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, his daughters and granddaughters – all his descendants.
Numbers 20:15
20:15 how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time,
and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.
Deuteronomy 10:22
10:22 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.
Deuteronomy 26:5
26:5 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.
Joshua 24:4
24:4 and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned Mount Seir,
while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.