Psalm 105 explicitly recalls Jacob/Israel entering and sojourning in Egypt, interpreting Genesis 46 as part of covenant history rather than a random famine detour. The descent prepares the setting for Israel’s multiplication, oppression, and eventual Exodus.

Acts 7:15 explicitly recalls Jacob going down into Egypt, directly summarizing Genesis 46 and marking the transition by which the patriarchal household becomes Israel-in-Egypt, the setting from which Exodus will begin.

Joshua’s covenant-history speech explicitly remembers Jacob and his children going down into Egypt. Genesis 46 narrates that migration in detail, making this a direct later-biblical recollection of the family’s descent into Egypt before the Exodus era.

Genesis 15 says Abraham’s descendants will live in a land not their own before eventually returning. In Genesis 46 Jacob and his entire family actually go down to Egypt, and God promises to go with them, make them a great nation there, and bring them up again.

Isaac is explicitly told not to go down into Egypt during famine, while Jacob later receives an explicit divine command not to fear going down into Egypt. The contrast shows that divine direction concerning the same destination differs by covenant moment and person.

God promises Jacob in Genesis 46 that he will go down with him into Egypt and will also bring him up again. After Jacob dies in Egypt, Genesis 50 narrates Joseph and the family carrying his body up to Canaan for burial in the ancestral tomb.