EGYPT

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• Genesis 12:10

  There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

• Genesis 12:11

  When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

• Genesis 12:12

  It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

• Genesis 12:13

  Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

• Genesis 12:14

  When Abram had come into Egypt, Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

• Genesis 12:15

  The princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh; and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.

• Genesis 12:16

  He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

• Genesis 12:17

  Yahweh afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.

• Genesis 12:18

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

• Genesis 12:19

  Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way.”

• Genesis 12:20

  Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they escorted him away with his wife and all that he had.

• Genesis 13:1

  Abram went up out of Egypt — he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him — into the South.

• Genesis 13:10

  Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of the Jordan, that it was well-watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

• Genesis 15:13

  He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

• Genesis 15:14

  I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,

• Genesis 15:18

  In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I have given this land to your offspring, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:

• Genesis 20:2

  Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

• Genesis 20:3

  But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man’s wife.”

• Genesis 20:4

  Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

• Genesis 20:5

  Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister?’ She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.”

• Genesis 20:6

  God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

• Genesis 37:25

  They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

• Genesis 37:36

  The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.

• Genesis 41:8

  In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:45

  Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 45:14

  He fell on his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.

• Genesis 47:18

  When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

• Genesis 47:19

  Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”

• Genesis 47:20

  So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.

• Genesis 47:21

  As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.

• Genesis 47:22

  Only he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land.

• Genesis 47:23

  Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

• Genesis 47:24

  It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”

• Genesis 47:25

  They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

• Genesis 47:26

  Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.

• Exodus 7:11

  Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers. They also, the magicians of Egypt, did the same thing with their enchantments.

• Exodus 14:5

  The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”

• Exodus 14:6

  He prepared his chariot, and took his army with him;

• Exodus 14:7

  and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.

• Exodus 14:8

  Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.

• Exodus 14:9

  The Egyptians pursued them. All the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.

• Exodus 14:10

  When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.

• Exodus 14:11

  They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

• Exodus 14:12

  Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

• Exodus 14:13

  Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.

• Exodus 14:14

  Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still.”

• Exodus 14:15

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.

• Exodus 14:16

  Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the middle of the sea on dry ground.

• Exodus 14:17

  Behold, I myself will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his armies, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.

• Exodus 14:18

  The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.”

• Exodus 14:19

  The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.

• Exodus 14:20

  It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and one didn’t come near the other all night.

• Exodus 14:21

  Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

• Exodus 14:22

  The children of Israel went into the middle of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

• Exodus 14:23

  The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the middle of the sea: all of Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

• Exodus 14:24

  In the morning watch, Yahweh looked out on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.

• Exodus 14:25

  He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, “Let’s flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!”

• Exodus 14:26

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen.”

• Exodus 14:27

  Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

• Exodus 14:28

  The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh’s army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.

• Exodus 14:29

  But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

• Exodus 14:30

  Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

• Exodus 14:31

  Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh, and in his servant Moses.

• Numbers 11:5

  We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

• Numbers 34:5

  The border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the sea.

• Deuteronomy 11:10

  For the land, where you go in to possess it, isn’t as the land of Egypt, that you came out of, where you sowed your seed, and watered it with your foot, as a garden of herbs;

• Joshua 13:3

  from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim,

• Joshua 15:4

  and it passed along to Azmon, went out at the brook of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your south border.

• Joshua 15:47

  Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline.

• 1 Kings 4:30

  Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.

• 1 Kings 8:65

  So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.

• 1 Kings 10:28

  The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.

• 1 Kings 10:29

  A chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty shekels; and so they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites, and to the kings of Syria.

• 2 Kings 24:7

  The king of Egypt didn’t come out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that belonged to the king of Egypt.

• Psalms 78:47

  He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.

• Psalms 87:4

  I will record Rahab and Babylon among those who acknowledge me. Behold, Philistia, Tyre, and also Ethiopia: “This one was born there.”

• Psalms 89:10

  You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.

• Psalms 105:23

  Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob lived in the land of Ham.

• Psalms 106:22

  Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Red Sea.

• Proverbs 7:16

  I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

• Isaiah 19:2

  I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

• Isaiah 19:5

  The waters will fail from the sea, and the river will be wasted and become dry.

• Isaiah 19:6

  The rivers will become foul. The streams of Egypt will be diminished and dried up. The reeds and flags will wither away.

• Isaiah 19:7

  The meadows by the Nile, by the brink of the Nile, and all the sown fields of the Nile, will become dry, be driven away, and be no more.

• Isaiah 19:8

  The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.

• Isaiah 19:9

  Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.

• Isaiah 27:12

  It will happen in that day, that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.

• Isaiah 31:1

  Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek Yahweh!

• Isaiah 43:17

  who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick):

• Jeremiah 9:25

  “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:

• Jeremiah 9:26

  Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”

• Jeremiah 43:8

  Then Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,

• Jeremiah 43:9

  “Take great stones in your hand, and hide them in mortar in the brick work, which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;

• Jeremiah 43:10

  and tell them, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

• Jeremiah 43:11

  He will come, and will strike the land of Egypt; such as are for death shall be put to death, and such as are for captivity to captivity, and such as are for the sword to the sword.

• Jeremiah 43:12

  I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he shall go out from there in peace.

• Jeremiah 43:13

  He shall also break the pillars of Beth Shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and he shall burn the houses of the gods of Egypt with fire.’”

• Jeremiah 44:30

  Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.’”

• Ezekiel 20:7

  I said to them, ‘Each of you throw away the abominations of his eyes, and don’t defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’

• Ezekiel 20:8

  “‘“But they rebelled against me, and would not listen to me. They didn’t all throw away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt.

• Ezekiel 27:7

  Your sail was of fine linen with embroidered work from Egypt, that it might be to you for a banner; blue and purple from the islands of Elishah was your awning.

• Ezekiel 29:10

  therefore, behold, I am against you, and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from the tower of Seveneh even to the border of Ethiopia.

• Ezekiel 47:19

  The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea. This is the south side southward.

• Ezekiel 48:28

  By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea.

• Hosea 8:13

  As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it; But Yahweh doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.

• Joel 3:11

  Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves together.” Cause your mighty ones to come down there, Yahweh.

• Amos 8:8

  Won’t the land tremble for this, and everyone mourn who dwells in it? Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River; and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

• Amos 9:5

  For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.

• Zechariah 10:11

  He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.

• Matthew 2:13

  Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”

• Matthew 2:14

  He arose and took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt,

• Matthew 2:15

  and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

• Matthew 2:16

  Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

• Matthew 2:17

  Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,

• Matthew 2:18

  “A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more.”

• Matthew 2:19

  But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,

• Matthew 2:20

  “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead.”

• Acts 7:11

  Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

• Acts 7:22

  Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. He was mighty in his words and works.

• Revelation 11:8

  Their dead bodies will be in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified.