Bible Verses About Egyptians

Mitzrayim fathered the Ludim, the ‘Anamim, the L’havim, the Naftuchim,

the Patrusim, the Kasluchim (from whom came the P’lishtim) and the Kaftorim.

But there was a famine in the land, so Avram went down into Egypt to stay there, because the famine in the land was severe.

When he came close to Egypt and was about to enter, he said to Sarai his wife, “Here now, I know that you are a good-looking woman;

so that when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife,’ and kill me but keep you alive.

Please say that you are my sister, so that it will go well with me for your sake, and so that I will stay alive because of you.”

When Avram entered Egypt, the Egyptians did notice that the woman was very beautiful.

Pharaoh’s princes saw her and commended her to Pharaoh, so the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

He treated Avram well for her sake, giving him sheep, cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.

But Adonai inflicted great plagues on Pharaoh and his household because of Sarai Avram’s wife.

Pharaoh called Avram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why didn’t you tell me that she was your wife?

Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my own wife? Now therefore, here is your wife! Take her, and go away!”

So Pharaoh gave orders concerning him to his men, and they sent him on his way with his wife and everything he had.

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.

At midnight ADONAI killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.

Pharaoh got up in the night, he, all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was horrendous wailing in Egypt; for there wasn't a single house without someone dead in it.

He summoned Moshe and Aharon by night and said, "Up and leave my people, both you and the people of Isra'el; and go, serve ADONAI as you said.

Take both your flocks and your herds, as you said; and get out of here! But bless me, too."

The Egyptians pressed to send the people out of the land quickly, because they said, "Otherwise we'll all be dead!"

The people took their dough before it had become leavened and wrapped their kneading bowls in their clothes on their shoulders.

The people of Isra'el had done what Moshe had said - they had asked the Egyptians to give them silver and gold jewelry and clothing;

and ADONAI had made the Egyptians so favorably disposed toward the people that they had let them have whatever they requested. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

When the king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his servants had a change of heart toward the people. They said, "What have we done, letting Isra'el stop being our slaves?"

So he prepared his chariots and took his people with him -