Quotes About Migration

Massive starship building programme initiated in O'Neill Halo. Govcentral begins large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus population, rising to 2 million a week in 2160: Great Dispersal.

From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

the Pathrusites, the Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and the Caphtorites.

And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev.

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.

Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,

Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.

Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,

Israel again set out and pitched his tent beyond the Tower of Eder.

Later, Esau took his wives and sons and daughters and all the people of his household, along with his livestock, all his other animals, and all the property he had acquired in Canaan, and he moved to a land far away from his brother Jacob.

Then Jacob departed from Beersheba, and the sons of Israel took their father Jacob in the wagons Pharaoh had sent to carry him, along with their children and wives.

They also took the livestock and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt.

Jacob took with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons, and his daughters and granddaughters—all his offspring.

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel (Jacob and his descendants) who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacobís firstborn.

All those belonging to Jacob who came to Egypt—his direct descendants, besides the wives of Jacobís sons—numbered sixty-six persons.

And with the two sons who had been born to Joseph in Egypt, the members of Jacobís family who went to Egypt were seventy in all.

So Joseph went and told Pharaoh: “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”

These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:

The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.

The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.

And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.