Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 47:4

4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come: for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks, for the famine is [illegible: 1+ letters]ore in the land of Canaan : now therefore we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

Not to d[illegible: 1+ letters]raud thy people of their lands and habitations but onely to be here for a season as strangers and sojourners till we can conveniently return to our own Land.

Which being an higher ground then Egypt, and watered in a manner onely by Rain from Heaven, must needs sooner and sorer feel the effects of a drought and scarcity than Egypt which had relief from N[illegible: 1+ letters]lus in that [illegible: 1 word].