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

  4 For thus saith the Lord ^aGod, 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 ^bperish 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.