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Genesis 47:4
New English Translation

4 Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as temporary residents[a] in the land. There is no[b] pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”

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  1. Genesis 47:4 tn Heb “to sojourn.”
  2. Genesis 47:4 tn Heb “for there is no.” The Hebrew uses a causal particle to connect what follows with what precedes. The translation divides the statement into two sentences for stylistic reasons.
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