Genesis 46:6
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They also took the livestock and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt.
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So Jacob went down to Egypt, where he and our fathers died.
For this is what the Lord GOD says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.
Then Israel entered Egypt; Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham.
and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
how our fathers went down to Egypt, where we lived many years. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers,
Your fathers went down to Egypt, seventy in all, and now the LORD your God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.
When Jacob went to Egypt, your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He sent them Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and settled them in this place.