Israel’s Family in Egypt
When Jacob (or “Israel “as God had named him in Genesis 32:28), and his family were just a few, we find they had journeyed to Egypt where God continued with His perfect plan for His chosen people. There were only 70 of them at this point (Genesis 46:27; Exodus 1:5; Deut. 10:22) but they came to Egypt to survive the famine that had swept over their own land. Actually this was all part of the covenant God had made with…