Genesis 47:25

KJV1611 – Modern English

And they said, You have saved our lives: let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

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  • Gen 33:15 : 15 And Esau said, Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me. And he said, What need is there? Let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
  • Gen 41:45 : 45 And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnath-Paaneah and gave him as a wife Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On. So Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 45:6-8 : 6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. 7 And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8 So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 50:20 : 20 But as for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
  • Ruth 2:13 : 13 Then she said, Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, for you have comforted me, and you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.
  • Prov 11:26-27 : 26 The people shall curse him who withholds grain, but blessing shall be on the head of him who sells it. 27 He who diligently seeks good procures favor, but he who seeks evil, it shall come to him.
  • Gen 6:19 : 19 And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
  • Gen 18:3 : 3 And said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, do not pass away, I pray you, from your servant.

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  • Gen 47:18-19
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    18 When that year ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide it from my lord, that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of cattle; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands:

    19 Why shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

  • Gen 50:17-18
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    17 So shall you say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray you now, the trespass of your brothers, and their sin, for they did unto you evil, and now, we pray you, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke unto him.

    18 And his brothers also went and fell down before his face, and they said, Behold, we are your servants.

  • 21 And they said to them, The Lord look upon you and judge; because you have made our odor to be loathed in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.

  • Gen 39:4-5
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    4 And Joseph found favor in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his care.

    5 And from the time that he made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the LORD was upon all that he had in the house and in the field.

  • Gen 47:3-5
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    3 And Pharaoh said to his brothers, What is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, Your servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.

    4 They said moreover to Pharaoh, We have come to sojourn in the land; for your servants have no pasture for their flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

    5 And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Your father and your brothers have come to you:

  • 26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have a fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which did not become Pharaoh's.

  • Gen 44:16-19
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    16 And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and also he with whom the cup is found.

    17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, go up in peace to your father.

    18 Then Judah came near to him, and said, Oh my lord, let your servant, I pray you, speak a word in my lord's ears, and let not your anger burn against your servant: for you are even as Pharaoh.

    19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Do you have a father or a brother?

  • Gen 44:9-10
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    9 Whichever of your servants it is found with, let him die, and we also will be my lord's slaves.

    10 And he said, Now also let it be according to your words: the one with whom it is found shall be my servant; and you shall be blameless.

  • 16 And the report thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brothers have come; and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

  • Gen 41:37-38
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    37 The proposal was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of all his servants.

    38 And Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?

  • Gen 47:23-24
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    23 Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

    24 And it shall come to pass in the harvest, that you shall give a fifth part to Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.

  • 7 And they said to him, Why does my lord say these words? God forbid that your servants should do such a thing as this:

  • 10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

  • 55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Then Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph; whatever he says to you, do.

  • 4 And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spoke unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

  • 10 And they said to him, No, my lord, but to buy food your servants have come.

  • 5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?

  • Gen 45:7-8
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    7 And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

    8 So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

  • 41 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt.

  • 5 Therefore, they said, if we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession, and do not bring us over the Jordan.

  • 36 And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they granted them what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

  • 13 And that you will save my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

  • 44 Pharaoh also said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without your consent no man may lift his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.

  • 2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: go down there, and buy for us from there; that we may live, and not die.