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# Egypt, Egyptian
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## Facts
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Egypt is a country in the northeast part of Africa, to the south and west of the Promised Land.
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* In ancient times, Egypt was a powerful and wealthy country.
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* Several times in the Bible, Israel's patriarchs had to go down to Egypt for food.
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* One of these times, God used Jacob's son Joseph to preserve the Egyptian people during a time of famine and to keep his own family from starving.
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* An Egyptian is a person who is a native of Egypt.
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* Though the Israelites lived in Egypt for many generations, they were never considered to be Egyptians.
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