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.'

• Exodus 3:8

  And I have come down to rescue them from the clutches of the Egyptians and bring them up out of that country, to a country rich and broad, to a country flowing with milk and honey, to the home of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.

• Exodus 3:22

  Every woman will ask her neighbour and the woman staying in her house for silver and golden jewellery, and clothing. In these you will dress your own sons and daughters, despoiling the Egyptians of them.'

• Exodus 5:21

  'May Yahweh look down at you and judge!' they said to them. 'You have brought us into bad odour with Pharaoh and his officials; you have put a sword into their hand to kill us.'

• Exodus 11:2

  Now instruct the people that every man is to ask his neighbour, and every woman hers, for silver and golden jewellery.

• Exodus 11:3

  And Yahweh made the Egyptians impressed with the people, while Moses himself was a man of great importance in Egypt in the opinion of Pharaoh's officials and the people.

• Exodus 11:6

  And throughout Egypt there will be great wailing, such as never was before, nor will be again.

• Exodus 12:33

  The Egyptians urged the people on and hurried them out of the country because, they said, 'Otherwise we shall all be dead.'

• Exodus 12:36

  Yahweh made the Egyptians so much impressed with the people that they gave them what they asked. So they despoiled the Egyptians.

• Exodus 14:9

  but the Egyptians, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, his horsemen and his army, gave chase and caught up with them where they lay encamped beside the sea near Pi-Hahiroth, facing Baal-Zephon.

• Exodus 14:25

  He so clogged their chariot wheels that they drove on only with difficulty, which made the Egyptians say, 'Let us flee from Israel, for Yahweh is fighting on their side against the Egyptians!'

• Exodus 14:27

  Moses stretched out his hand over the sea and, as day broke, the sea returned to its bed. The fleeing Egyptians ran straight into it, and Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

• Exodus 14:30

  That day, Yahweh rescued Israel from the clutches of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the sea-shore.

• Exodus 15:26

  'If you listen carefully to the voice of Yahweh your God and do what he regards as right, if you pay attention to his commandments and keep all his laws, I shall never inflict on you any of the diseases that I inflicted on the Egyptians, for I am Yahweh your Healer.'

• Exodus 18:10

  'Blessed be Yahweh', Jethro exclaimed, 'for having rescued you from the clutches of the Egyptians and the clutches of Pharaoh, for having rescued the people from the grasp of the Egyptians!

• Exodus 18:11

  Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all other gods. . .'

• Exodus 19:4

  "You have seen for yourselves what I did to the Egyptians and how I carried you away on eagle's wings and brought you to me.

• Exodus 32:12

  Why should the Egyptians say, "He brought them out with evil intention, to slaughter them in the mountains and wipe them off the face of the earth?" Give up your burning wrath; relent over this disaster intended for your people.