How Jews ended up in Egypt?

Question

Knowing that Abraham the great great grand father of Jews lived in Hebron and his tomb is there also.

Answer 1

They turned left in Albuequeque

Answer 2

Im jewish. YOUR TALKING ABOUT A LONG TIME AGO RIGHT??? well the jews were bought buy Egyptains and then taken to Egypt. There they were used as slaves moving wood, stone, etc. to make what the Egypatins call Sphinx which is a statue of a lion body with a different face. Jews were torchered.
If you want to know more i highly recomend that you look it up on Wikipedia or watch some movies on it.

Answer 3

The children of Abraham's line did not live in Egypt...but they despised their handsome and gifted brother Joseph, son of the lovely Rachael, and threw him into a well....Joseph wound up becoming a bigshot in Egypt. The story goes, the family followed him there and eventually the Jewish people fell into slavery.

Answer 4

Abraham fathered Isaac.
Isaac fathered Esau and Jacob (renamed Isreal).
Jacob/Isreal fathered 12 sons and at least 1 daughter. He had 2 wives and 2 concubines.

When Jacob was an old man, some serious sibling rivalry erupted between his favorite son (Joseph) and his sons by his other wives. They ended up selling their half-brother to some traders, who sold Joseph in Egypt as a slave. (The brothers conspired to tell Dad that their brother had been eaten by some wild beast.)

Joseph, now a slave in Egypt, gradually worked his way up to major-domo of a senior officer's household. He was later imprisoned for the (supposed) attempted rape of his owner's wife. He gained fame as a seer while in prison, as well as a manager, which led him into the employ of the Pharoah some years later. Pharaoh's dreams warned of an upcoming drought and famine, which would be severe enough to affect the known world. Joseph, now second in command of all Egypt, began stockpiling grain in Egypt. He was the de-facto ruler of Egypt for 7 years of incredible prosperity, before the famine hit, which he predicted would last for another 7 years.

Meanwhile, back in Palestine, Joseph's father and family were also hit by the famine. While some fruit trees still produced crops, there was little to no grain for bread. Travellers reported grain hoards in Egypt, and Jacob sent 10 of his sons to Egypt to buy grain for the rest of the family (75 in all, counting wives, daughter(s), daughters-in-law, grandchildren, and slaves).

Long story made short: Joseph recognized his brothers, and eventually (several trips later) made himself known to them. He had his father and the entire rest of his family relocated to Egypt, for the famine was going to last for at least 4 more years. Pharoah granted Joseph's brothers the county of Goshen, because they were herdsmen.

The famine was so severe, however, that the populace of Egypt became impoverished, eventually selling all of their lands, houses, possessions, and selves to the Pharoah for food. The Hebrews (Jacob's decendents) did the same, and their decendents remained in slavery.

When Joseph's father, Jacob, died, Joseph had him embalmed in the Egyptian fashion, and he and his brothers took their father's body to Hebron for burial. Afterward, all of Jacob's sons returned to Egypt, and died there.

Answer 5

Then God talked to Israel in visions of the night and said: “Jacob, Jacob!” to which he said: “Here I am!” And he went on to say: “I am the true God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I shall constitute you there into a great nation. I myself shall go down with you to Egypt and I myself shall surely bring you up also.

Answer 6

Joseph was sent down there by his brothers after being sold into slavery. Then when there was a big famine in israel then they went to egypt where there was food. Joseph was high up at that time and then the whole jewish tribe moved down to egypt.

Answer 7

Read the story of Joseph, Gen. 30 until the end of the book.

Answer 8

Abraham was not a Jew. And there is no real historical evidence of the Jewish captivity or exodus from Egypt.

Answer 9

I believe that someone, maybe Joseph or Jacob, was looking for more fertile lands, and once they got to Egypt, they liked it so they stayed. When they grew to large in numbers, the Pharaoh enslaved them to keep them from getting power

Answer 10

They ended up in Egypt because of a many colored coat.