Bible Verses About Egypt

They replied, "You have saved our lives! So if it pleases my lord, we will be Pharaoh's slaves."

Yosef made it a law for the country of Egypt, valid to this day, that Pharaoh should have twenty percent. Only the property belonging to the priests did not become Pharaoh's.

Yosef fell on his father's face, wept over him and kissed him.

Then Yosef ordered the physicians in his service to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Isra'el.

Forty days were spent at this, the normal amount of time for embalming. Then the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.

When the period of mourning was over, Yosef addressed to the household of Pharaoh: "I would like to ask a favor. Tell Pharaoh,

'My father had me swear an oath. He said, "I am going to die. You are to bury me in my grave, which I dug for myself in the land of Kena'an."Therefore, I beg you, let me go up and bury my father; I will return.'"

Pharaoh responded, "Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear."

So Yosef went up to bury his father. With him went all Pharaoh's servants, the leaders of his household and the leaders of the land of Egypt,

along with the entire household of Yosef, his brothers and his father's household; only their little ones, their flocks and their cattle did they leave in the land of Goshen.

Moreover, there went up with him both chariots and horsemen - it was a very large caravan.

When they arrived at the threshing-floor in Atad, beyond the Yarden, they raised a loud and bitter lamentation, mourning for his father seven days.

When the local inhabitants, the Kena'ani, saw the mourning on the floor of Atad they said, "How bitterly the Egyptians are mourning!"This is why the place was given the name Avel-Mitzrayim [mourning of Egypt], there beyond the Yarden.

His sons did to him as he had ordered them to do -

they carried him into the land of Kena'an and buried him in the cave in the field of Makhpelah, which Avraham had bought, along with the field, as a burial-place belonging to him, from 'Efron the Hitti, by Mamre.

These are the names of the sons of Isra'el who came into Egypt with Ya'akov; each man came with his household:

Re'uven, Shim'on, Levi, Y'hudah,

Yissakhar, Z'vulun, Binyamin,

Dan, Naftali, Gad and Asher.

All told, there were seventy descendants of Ya'akov; Yosef was already in Egypt.

Yosef died, as did all his brothers and all that generation.

The descendants of Isra'el were fruitful, increased abundantly, multiplied and grew very powerful; the land became filled with them.

Now there arose a new king over Egypt. He knew nothing about Yosef

but said to his people, "Look, the descendants of Isra'el have become a people too numerous and powerful for us.

Come, let's use wisdom in dealing with them. Otherwise, they'll continue to multiply; and in the event of war they might ally themselves with our enemies, fight against us and leave the land altogether."