So they said to one another,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Let&#8217;s appoint<n id="2" /> a leader<n id="3" /> and return<n id="4" /> to Egypt.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt<n id="1" /> to stay for a while<n id="2" /> because the famine was severe.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

The <sc>Lordsc> appeared to Isaac and said, &#8220;Do not go down to Egypt;<n id="1" /> settle down in the land that I will point out to you.<n id="2" />

People from every country<n id="1" /> came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.p>

He brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons,<n id="1" /> his daughters and granddaughters &#8211; all his descendants.p>

<p class="bodytext">These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt &#8211; Jacob and his sons:p> <p class="poetry">Reuben, the firstborn of Jacob.p>

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">These<n id="2" /> are the names<n id="3" /> of the sons of Israel<n id="4" /> who entered Egypt &#8211; each man with his household<n id="5" /> entered with Jacob:

how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time,<n id="1" /> and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly.<n id="2" />

When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the <sc>Lordsc> your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky.<n id="1" />p>

As he approached<n id="1" /> Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, &#8220;Look,<n id="2" /> I know that you are a beautiful woman.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt.<n id="1" /> An Egyptian named Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard,<n id="2" /> purchased him from<n id="3" /> the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.

Joseph said to his brothers, &#8220;Come closer to me,&#8221; so they came near. Then he said, &#8220;I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

He said, &#8220;I am God,<n id="1" /> the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

I will go down with you to Egypt and I myself will certainly bring you back from there.<n id="1" /> Joseph will close your eyes.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Jacob and all his descendants took their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and they went to Egypt.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">All the direct descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt with him were sixty-six in number. (This number does not include the wives of Jacob&#8217;s sons.)<n id="1" />

Counting the two sons<n id="1" /> of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt, all the people of the household of Jacob who were in Egypt numbered seventy.<n id="2" />p>

After he buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt, along with his brothers and all who had accompanied him to bury his father.p>

Why has the <sc>Lordsc> brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn&#8217;t it be better for us to return to Egypt?&#8221;