And I gave unto Isaac, (A)Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto (B)Esau mount Seir, to possess it: but (C)Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

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23 Then Israel came to Egypt, and Jacob was a stranger in the land of Ham.

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For thus saith the Lord God, My people went [a]down afore time into Egypt to sojourn there, and Assyria [b]oppressed them without cause.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 52:4 When Jacob went thither in time of famine.
  2. Isaiah 52:4 The Egyptians might pretend some cause to oppress my people because they went thither, and remained among them, but the Assyrians have no title to excuse their tyranny by, and therefore will I punish them more than I did the Egyptians.

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