11 Then a famine throughout Egypt and Canaan brought a lot of suffering. Our ancestors couldn’t find any food.
12 When Jacob heard that Egypt had food, he sent our ancestors there. That was their first trip.
13 On the second trip, Joseph told his brothers who he was, and Pharaoh learned about Joseph’s family.
14 Joseph sent for his father Jacob and his relatives, 75 people in all.
15 So Jacob went to Egypt, and he and our ancestors died there.
16 They were taken to Shechem for burial in the tomb that Abraham purchased in Shechem from Hamor’s sons.
17 “When the time that God had promised to Abraham had almost come, the number of our people in Egypt had grown very large.