Genesis 46
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So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to a Beersheba, and offered sacrifices b to the God of his father Isaac.
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Then God spoke to Israel c in the visions of the night, and said, "Jacob, Jacob!" And he said, "Here I am."
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So He said, "I am God, d the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will e make of you a great nation there.
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f "I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely g bring you up again; and h Joseph will put his hand on your eyes."
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Then i Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their wives, in the carts j which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
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So they took their livestock and their goods, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to Egypt, k Jacob and all his descendants with him.
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His sons and his sons' sons, his daughters and his sons' daughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.
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Now l these were the names of the children of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: m Reuben was Jacob's firstborn.
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The n sons of Reuben were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi.
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o The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.
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The sons of p Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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The sons of q Judah were r Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan). s The sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.
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The sons of Issachar were Tola, Puvah, Job, and Shimron.
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The t sons of Zebulun were Sered, Elon, and Jahleel.
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These were the u sons of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob in Padan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the persons, his sons and his daughters, were thirty-three.
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The sons of Gad were Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.
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v The sons of Asher were Jimnah, Ishuah, Isui, Beriah, and Serah, their sister. And the sons of Beriah were Heber and Malchiel.
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w These were the sons of Zilpah, x whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bore to Jacob: sixteen persons.
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The y sons of Rachel, z Jacob's wife, were Joseph and Benjamin.
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a And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath, the daughter of PotiPherah' priest of On, bore to him.
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b The sons of Benjamin were Belah, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, c Ehi, Rosh, d Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
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These were the sons of Rachel, who were born to Jacob: fourteen persons in all.
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The son of Dan was Hushim.
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e The sons of Naphtali were Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
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f These were the sons of Bilhah, g whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob: seven persons in all.
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h All the persons who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came from his body, i besides Jacob's sons' wives, were sixty-six persons in all.
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And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. j All the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy.
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Then he sent Judah before him to Joseph, k to point out before him the way to Goshen. And they came l to the land of Goshen.
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So Joseph made ready his m chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; and he presented himself to him, and n fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.
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And Israel said to Joseph, o "Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive."
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Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father's household, p "I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, 'My brothers and those of my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.
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'And the men are q shepherds, for their occupation has been to feed livestock; and they have brought their flocks, their herds, and all that they have.'
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"So it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you and says, r 'What is your occupation?'
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"that you shall say, 'Your servants' s occupation has been with livestock t from our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,' that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is u an abomination to the Egyptians."
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Genesis 21:31
Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.
Genesis 21:33
Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.
Genesis 26:32
It came to pass the same day that Isaac's servants came and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water.
Genesis 26:33
So he called it Shebah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
Genesis 28:10
Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.
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Genesis 26:24
And the LORD appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham; do not fear, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for My servant Abraham's sake.
Genesis 26:25
So he built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac's servants dug a well.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the LORD stood above it and said: "I am the LORD God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.
Genesis 31:42
"Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
Genesis 32:9
Then Jacob said, "O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, the LORD who said to me, 'Return to your country and to your family, and I will deal well with you':
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Genesis 15:1
After these things the word of the LORD came to...
Genesis 22:11
But the Angel of the LORD called to him from he...
Genesis 31:11
"Then the Angel of God spoke to me in a dream, ...
Numbers 12:6
Then He said, "Hear now My words: If there is a...
Job 33:14
For God may speak in one way, or in another, Ye...
Job 33:15
In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep...
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Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am Almighty God; walk before Me and be blameless.
Genesis 28:13
And behold, the LORD stood above it and said: "I am the LORD God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.
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Genesis 12:2
I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing.
Exodus 1:9
And he said to his people, "Look, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.
Exodus 12:37
Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.
Deuteronomy 26:5
And you shall answer and say before the LORD your God: 'My father was a Syrian, about to perish, and he went down to Egypt and dwelt there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
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Genesis 28:15
"Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you."
Genesis 31:3
Then the LORD said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you.
Genesis 48:21
Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.
Exodus 3:12
So He said, "I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.
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Genesis 15:16
"But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."
Genesis 50:12
So his sons did for him just as he had commanded them.
Genesis 50:24
And Joseph said to his brethren, "I am dying; but God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land to the land of which He swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Genesis 50:25
Then Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.
Exodus 3:8
So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
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Genesis 50:1
Then Joseph fell on his father's face, and wept over him, and kissed him.
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Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Acts 7:15
So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers.
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Genesis 45:19 - 21
Now you are commanded - do this: Take carts out of the land of Egypt for your little ones and your wives; bring your father and come.
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Deuteronomy 26:5
And you shall answer and say before the LORD your God: 'My father was a Syrian, about to perish, and he went down to Egypt and dwelt there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
Joshua 24:4
To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I gave the mountains of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
Psalms 105:23
Israel also came into Egypt, And Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.
Isaiah 52:4
For thus says the Lord GOD: "My people went down at first Into Egypt to dwell there; Then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Acts 7:15
So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers.
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Exodus 1:1 - 4
Now these are the names of the children of Israel who came to Egypt; each man and his household came with Jacob:
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Numbers 26:4
" Take a census of the people from twenty years old and above, just as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt."
Numbers 26:5
Reuben was the firstborn of Israel. The children of Reuben were: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites.
1 Chronicles 2:1
These were the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun.
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Exodus 6:14
These are the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch, Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. These are the families of Reuben.
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Exodus 6:15
And the sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman. These are the families of Simeon.
Numbers 26:12
The sons of Simeon according to their families were: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites.
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Exodus 6:16
These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were one hundred and thirty-seven.
Exodus 6:17
The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimi according to their families.
1 Chronicles 6:1
The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
1 Chronicles 6:16
The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
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Numbers 26:19
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
Numbers 26:20
And the sons of Judah according to their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Perez, the family of the Parzites; of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.
1 Chronicles 2:3
The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by the daughter of Shua, the Canaanitess. Er, the firstborn of Judah, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so He killed him.
1 Chronicles 4:21
The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of the linen workers of the house of Ashbea.
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Genesis 38:3
So she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.
Genesis 38:7
But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD killed him.
Genesis 38:10
And the thing which he did displeased the LORD; therefore He killed him also.
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Genesis 38:29
Then it happened, as he drew back his hand, that his brother came out unexpectedly; and she said, "How did you break through? This breach be upon you!" Therefore his name was called Perez.
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Numbers 26:26
The sons of Zebulun according to their families were: of Sered, the family of the Sardites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.
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Genesis 35:23
The sons of Leah were Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
Genesis 49:31
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah.
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Numbers 26:44 - 47
The sons of Asher according to their families were: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites; of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites; of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.
1 Chronicles 7:30
The sons of Asher were Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah.
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Genesis 30:10
And Leah's maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
Genesis 37:2
This is the history of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. And the lad was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph brought a bad report of them to his father.
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Genesis 29:24
And Laban gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah as a maid.
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Genesis 35:24
The sons of Rachel were Joseph and Benjamin.
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Genesis 44:27
Then your servant my father said to us, 'You know that my wife bore me two sons.
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Genesis 41:45
And Pharaoh called Joseph's name ZaphnathPaane'ah. And he gave him as a wife Asenath, the daughter of PotiPherah' priest of On. So Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 41:50 - 52
And to Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of PotiPherah' priest of On, bore to him.
Genesis 48:1
Now it came to pass after these things that Joseph was told, "Indeed your father is sick"; and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
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1 Chronicles 7:6
The sons of Benjamin were Bela, Becher, and Jediael - three in all.
1 Chronicles 8:1
Now Benjamin begot Bela his firstborn, Ashbel the second, Aharah the third.
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Numbers 26:38
The sons of Benjamin according to their families were: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites.
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Numbers 26:39
Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.
1 Chronicles 7:12
Shuppim and Huppim were the sons of Ir, and Hushim was the son of Aher.
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Numbers 26:48
The sons of Naphtali according to their families were: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites.
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Genesis 30:5
And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
Genesis 30:7
And Rachel's maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
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Genesis 29:29
And Laban gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as a maid.
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Exodus 1:5
All those who were descendants of Jacob were seventy persons (for Joseph was in Egypt already ).
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Genesis 35:11
Also God said to him: "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body.
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Exodus 1:5
All those who were descendants of Jacob were seventy persons (for Joseph was in Egypt already ).
Deuteronomy 10:22
Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy persons, and now the LORD your God has made you as the stars of heaven in multitude.
Acts 7:14
Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and all his relatives to him, seventy-five people.
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Genesis 31:21
So he fled with all that he had. He arose and crossed the river, and headed toward the mountains of Gilead.
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Genesis 47:1
Then Joseph went and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, their flocks and their herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan; and indeed they are in the land of Goshen.
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Genesis 41:43
And he had him ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried out before him, "Bow the knee!" So he set him over all the land of Egypt.
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Genesis 45:14
Then he fell on his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
Genesis 45:15
Moreover he kissed all his brothers and wept over them, and after that his brothers talked with him.
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Luke 2:29
Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace, According to Your word.
Luke 2:30
For my eyes have seen Your salvation
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Genesis 47:1
Then Joseph went and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, their flocks and their herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan; and indeed they are in the land of Goshen.
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Genesis 47:3
Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we and also our fathers.
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Genesis 47:2
And he took five men from among his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh.
Genesis 47:3
Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we and also our fathers.
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Genesis 47:3
Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" And they said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we and also our fathers.
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Genesis 30:35
So he removed that day the male goats that were speckled and spotted, all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
Genesis 34:5
And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. Now his sons were with his livestock in the field; so Jacob held his peace until they came.
Genesis 37:17
And the man said, "They have departed from here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan."' So Joseph went after his brothers and found them in Dothan.
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Genesis 43:32
So they set him a place by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves; because the Egyptians could not eat food with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
Exodus 8:26
And Moses said, "It is not right to do so, for we would be sacrificing the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God. If we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, then will they not stone us?
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