23  Israel also came into ^aEgypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

  4  For thus saith the Lord God, My people went down aforetime into ^bEgypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

  7  For as Joseph brought his father down into the land of ^aEgypt, even so he died there; wherefore, the Lord brought a remnant of the seed of Joseph out of the land of Jerusalem, that he might be merciful unto the seed of Joseph that they should perish not, even as he was merciful unto the father of Joseph that he should perish not.

  21  And I, Abraham, journeyed, going on still towards the south; and there was a continuation of a famine in the land; and I, Abraham, concluded to go down into Egypt, to sojourn there, for the famine became very grievous.