Budge E.A. Wallis. The dwellers on the Nile: or Chapters on the life, literature, history and customs of the ancient Egyptians

The Religious Tract Society, 1885. — 212 p. — (By-paths of Bible Knowledge 8).The land of Egypt, its people and their history, have
been the subjects of the most earnest enquiry both in
ancient and modern times. The reason is not far to
seek, for apart from its importance to the philologist
and profane historian, the nation claims the attention of
every Bible reader and student, from the fact of its being
contemporary with Abraham, and the nursing land of the
Jewish nation. When the patriarch Abraham found a
famine in Canaan, he sought food and life in the land
of the Pharaohs ; and after Joseph had become the
ruler of the land,' Jacob journeyed thither that his
posterity might fill the measure of their four hundred
(or four hundred and thirty) years' captivity. The Jews
entered the land 'when they were but a few men in
number,' they went out by myriads ; they went in as
visitors dependent on the good favour of the Pharaoh,
they went out with triumph. Egypt was a place of
refuge alike for the founder of the race, for the families
of the patriarchs, and for their mighty Descendant,
The Giver of Life, Who with His mother departed
by night into Egypt.