Egyptians

Scripture references

• Genesis 12:14

  When Abram arrived in Egypt the Egyptians did indeed see that the woman was very beautiful.

• Genesis 16:1

  Abram's wife Sarai had borne him no child, but she had an Egyptian slave-girl called Hagar.

• Genesis 39:1

  Now Joseph had been taken down into Egypt. Potiphar the Egyptian, one of Pharaoh's officials and commander of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him down there.

• Genesis 39:14

  she called her servants and said to them, 'Look at this! My husband brought in a Hebrew to make a fool of me! He burst in on me, but I screamed,

• Genesis 41:55

  But when all Egypt too began to feel the famine and the people appealed to Pharaoh for food, Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, 'Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.'

• Genesis 41:56

  There was famine all over the world. Then Joseph opened all the granaries and rationed out grain to the Egyptians, as the famine grew even worse in Egypt.

• Genesis 43:32

  He was served separately; so were they, and so were the Egyptians who ate in his household, for the Egyptians could not take food with Hebrews; Egyptians have a horror of doing so.

• Genesis 45:2

  but he wept so loudly that all the Egyptians heard, and the news reached Pharaoh's palace.

• Genesis 46:34

  you are to say, "Ever since our boyhood your servants have looked after livestock, we and our fathers before us," so that you can stay in the Goshen region -- for the Egyptians have a horror of all shepherds.'

• Genesis 47:15

  When all the money in Egypt and Canaan was exhausted, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, pleading, 'Give us food, unless you want us to die before your eyes! For our money has come to an end.'

• Genesis 47:20

  Thus Joseph acquired all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh, since one by one the Egyptians sold their fields, so hard pressed were they by the famine; and the whole country passed into Pharaoh's possession,

• Genesis 47:25

  'You have saved our lives!' they replied. 'If it please my lord, we will become serfs to Pharaoh.'

• Genesis 50:3

  and it took them forty days, for embalming takes forty days to complete. The Egyptians mourned him for seventy days.

• Genesis 50:11

  When the Canaanites, the local inhabitants, witnessed the mourning at Goren-ha-Atad, they said, 'This is a solemn act of mourning by the Egyptians,' which is why the place was given the name Abel-Mizraim-it is across the Jordan.

• Exodus 1:13

  So the Egyptians gave them no mercy in the demands they made,

• Exodus 1:14

  making their lives miserable with hard labour: with digging clay, making bricks, doing various kinds of field -- work -- all sorts of labour that they imposed on them without mercy.

• Exodus 2:11

  It happened one day, when Moses was grown up, that he went to see his kinsmen. While he was watching their forced labour he also saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his kinsmen.

• Exodus 2:12

  Looking this way and that and seeing no one in sight, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

• Exodus 2:19

  'An Egyptian protected us from the shepherds,' they said, 'and he even drew water for us and watered the flock.'