Genesis 47:4

Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as temporary residents ¹  in the land. There ²  is no 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.”

Ge 12:10; Ge 15:13; Ge 43:1; Ge 46:34; De 26:5; Ps 105:23; Isa 52:4; Ac 7:6; Ac 7:11

¹ tn Heb “to sojourn.”

² tn Heb “for there.” The Hebrew uses a causal particle to connect what follows with what precedes. The translation divides the statement into two sentences for stylistic reasons.