Gen 45:9-13 | TNotes | STEP | Summary for Gen 45:9-13: 45:9-13 Joseph instructed his brothers to inform Jacob. The whole family was to move to Egypt and live in Goshen , a fertile region in the Nile delta (see 47:1-12 ). If they did not come to Egypt, they would not survive the five years of famine ahead.

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‏ Genesis 45:9-13

Summary for Gen 45:9-13: 45:9-13 ^a Joseph instructed his brothers to inform Jacob. The whole family was to move to Egypt and live in Goshen, a fertile region in the Nile delta (see 47:1-12 ^b). If they did not come to Egypt, they would not survive the five years of famine ahead.
45:10 ^c The region of Goshen was in the northeast corner of Egypt, only a few days’ walk from Canaan. Jacob’s family stayed there because there was food and water for themselves and their flocks; later, they were kept there by Egyptians who put them to slave labor.