Genesis 45:8

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So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

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Canaan in the Patriarchal AgeCanaan during the patriarchal period, before the Israelite conquest.

The Ancient Near East (Fertile Crescent)The ancient Near East and Fertile Crescent, from Mesopotamia to Egypt, the world of the patriarchs.

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Canaan was the land where Jacob’s family lived, while Egypt was the powerful kingdom to which Joseph had been brought and where God had raised him to authority. Goshen, in Egypt, would become the fertile region where Joseph settled his family during the famine, showing God’s providential preservation of the covenant household.

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Genesis 45:8 mentions Canaan, Egypt and Goshen.

Photo of Egypt — Egypt · Ricardo Liberato