Jacob took his family to Egypt to reunite with his son Joseph, who had become a powerful ruler in Egypt. There was a severe famine in the land, and Joseph had urged his family to come to Egypt where there was food and shelter available.
Jacob's family consisted of 70 people when they went to Joseph in Egypt, as mentioned in Genesis 46:27.
Egypt was a safer place for Mary and Joseph than Bethlehem because Egypt was out of the jurisdiction of King Herod, who was seeking to kill the infant Jesus. By fleeing to Egypt, Mary and Joseph were able to escape Herod's massacre in Bethlehem targeting male infants.
The descendants of Abraham, including his grandson Jacob and his family, went to Egypt during a famine in Canaan. Jacob's son Joseph had risen to power in Egypt and invited his family to live there. This migration eventually led to the Israelites settling in Egypt and later being enslaved.
Mary and Joseph lived in Nazareth before Jesus was born. Following Jesus' birth, they fled to Egypt to escape King Herod's order to kill all male infants in Bethlehem. They later resettled in Nazareth after returning from Egypt.
Goshen
No, technically Joseph was the first.
Joseph (יוסף) in the book of Genesis.
Jacob took his family to Egypt to reunite with his son Joseph, who had become a powerful ruler in Egypt. There was a severe famine in the land, and Joseph had urged his family to come to Egypt where there was food and shelter available.
Jacob's family consisted of 70 people when they went to Joseph in Egypt, as mentioned in Genesis 46:27.
As Joseph was the governor of Egypt, second in power to pharaoh, his family were treated royally.
Joseph was warned in a dream to take the young child and his mother and flee to Egypt untill he hears from God again. (Matthew 2.13) So "the holy family" that fled to Egypt, were Joseph and Mary and Jesus.
Joseph
Where did the people settle in Egypt?
No it was not that only, it was his family he wanted in Egypt.
Joseph Settle was born in c. 1889.
The story of Joseph the Dreamer is set in ancient Egypt and Canaan, during a time when the Hebrews were living as shepherds and Joseph eventually rises to power in Egypt. The story spans different locations, from Joseph's family home to Egypt's palaces and prisons.