Bible Verses About Egypt

Then they answered, Thou hast saued our liues: let vs finde grace in the sight of my Lord, and we will be Pharaohs seruants.

Then Ioseph made it a lawe ouer the land of Egypt vnto this day, that Pharaoh should haue the fift part, except the land of the priests only, which was not Pharaohs.

Then Ioseph fell vpon his fathers face and wept vpon him, and kissed him.

And Ioseph commanded his seruantes the physicions, to enbaume his father, and the physicions enbaumed Israel.

So fourtie dayes were accomplished (for so long did the dayes of them that were enbaumed last) and the Egyptians bewayled him seuentie dayes.

And when the dayes of his mourning were past, Ioseph spake to the house of Pharaoh, saying, If I haue nowe found fauour in your eyes, speake, I pray you, in the eares of Pharaoh, and say,

My father made me sweare, saying, Loe, I die, bury me in my graue, which I haue made me in the land of Canaan: now therefore let me go, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I wil come againe.

Then Pharaoh said, Goe vp and bury thy father, as he made thee to sweare.

So Ioseph went vp to bury his father, and with him went all the seruants of Pharaoh, both the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt.

Likewise all the house of Ioseph, and his brethren, and his fathers house: onely their children, and their sheepe, and their cattell left they in the land of Goshen.

And there went vp with him both charets and horsemen: and they were an exceeding great company.

And they came to Goren Atad, which is beyond Iorden, and there they made a great and exceeding sore lamentation: and he mourned for his father seuen dayes.

And when the Canaanites the inhabitants of the lande sawe the mourning in Goren Atad, they sayde, This is a great mourning vnto the Egyptians: wherefore the name thereof was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond Iorden.

So his sonnes did vnto him, according as he had commanded them:

For his sonnes caried him into the lande of Canaan, and buried him in the caue of the fielde of Machpelah, which caue Abraham bought with the fielde, to be a place to bury in, of Ephron the Hittite besides Mamre.

Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt (euery man and his housholde came thither with Iaakob)

Reuben, Simeon, Leui, and Iudah,

Issachar, Zebulun, and Beniamin,

Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

So al the soules, that came out of the loines of Iaakob, were seuentie soules: Ioseph was in Egypt already.

Nowe Ioseph died and all his brethren, and that whole generation.

And the children of Israel brought foorth fruite and encreased in aboundance, and were multiplied, and were exceeding mightie, so that the land was full of them.

Then there rose vp a newe King in Egypt, who knewe not Ioseph.

And he sayde vnto his people, Beholde, the people of the children of Israel are greater and mightier then we.

Come, let vs worke wisely with them, least they multiplie, and it come to passe, that if there be warre, they ioyne them selues also vnto our enemies, and fight against vs, and get them out of the land.