Places of the Bible

Egypt

Northeastern Africa (the Nile valley) · both · 562 verses

Egypt is the ancient kingdom along the Nile in northeastern Africa. It appears throughout the Bible as a great neighboring power. The name appears in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and 29 more in the King James text.

About Egypt

Egypt is the ancient kingdom along the Nile in northeastern Africa. It appears throughout the Bible as a great neighboring power.

Its place in the story

Egypt was where Joseph rose to power and where Jacob's family settled and grew into a nation, and it later became the land of Israel's slavery. The Exodus out of Egypt under Moses is one of the central events of the Old Testament.

Egypt in Scripture (KJV)

“And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.”
Genesis 10:6 (KJV)
“And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,”
Genesis 10:13 (KJV)
“And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.”
Genesis 12:10 (KJV)
“And it came to pass, when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:”
Genesis 12:11 (KJV)
“And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.”
Genesis 12:14 (KJV)
“And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.”
Genesis 13:1 (KJV)
“And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.”
Genesis 13:10 (KJV)
“In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:”
Genesis 15:18 (KJV)

Egypt is named 562 times in Scripture; 8 shown above.

Where it leads

God's calling of his people out of Egypt is remembered as the great act of redemption, and the New Testament applies the words out of Egypt I called my son to Jesus.

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Where is Egypt in the Bible?

Egypt is the ancient kingdom along the Nile in northeastern Africa. It appears throughout the Bible as a great neighboring power. The name appears in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and 29 more in the King James text.

What happened at Egypt?

Egypt was where Joseph rose to power and where Jacob's family settled and grew into a nation, and it later became the land of Israel's slavery. The Exodus out of Egypt under Moses is one of the central events of the Old Testament.

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