Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was heavy in the land.

And Abraham journeyed from there to the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

And He said, I am the Mighty God, the God of your fathers. Do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.

So they took their livestock and their possessions which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob and all his seed with him.