So when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there the first time.

So Jacob went down to Egypt and died there, along with our ancestors,

until another king who did not know about Joseph ruled over Egypt.

and rescued him from all his troubles, and granted him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.

I have certainly seen the suffering of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Now come, I will send you to Egypt.’

Then he got up, took the child and his mother during the night, and went to Egypt.

After Herod had died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt

The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,

For which ones heard and rebelled? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under Moses’ leadership?

He regarded abuse suffered for Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for his eyes were fixed on the reward.

By faith he left Egypt without fearing the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he could see the one who is invisible.

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,

Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.

“But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt,

This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.

Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him, but pushed him aside and turned back to Egypt in their hearts,

Now I desire to remind you (even though you have been fully informed of these facts once for all) that Jesus, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, later destroyed those who did not believe.

Their corpses will lie in the street of the great city that is symbolically called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was also crucified.

He stayed there until Herod died. In this way what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet was fulfilled: “I called my Son out of Egypt.”

saying to Aaron, ‘Make us gods who will go in front of us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt – we do not know what has happened to him!’