Genesis 45:18

World English Bible (2000)

Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'

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  • Gen 27:28 : 28 God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
  • Gen 47:6 : 6 The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock."
  • Num 18:12 : 12 "All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh, to you have I given them.
  • Num 18:29 : 29 Out of all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering of Yahweh, of all its best, even the holy part of it out of it.'
  • Deut 32:14 : 14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.
  • Ps 81:16 : 16 But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock." A Psalm by Asaph.
  • Ps 147:14 : 14 He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
  • Isa 28:1 : 1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
  • Isa 28:4 : 4 The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.

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  • Gen 45:19-21
    3 verses
    85%

    19 Now you are commanded: do this. Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

    20 Also, don't concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all of the land of Egypt is yours."

    21 The sons of Israel did so. Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.

  • Gen 45:16-17
    2 verses
    85%

    16 The report of it was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, "Joseph's brothers have come." It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

    17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 47:4-7
    4 verses
    82%

    4 They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."

    5 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.

    6 The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock."

    7 Joseph brought in Jacob, his father, and set him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

  • Gen 45:7-11
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    81%

    7 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

    8 So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

    9 Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't wait.

    10 You shall dwell in the land of Goshen, and you will be near to me, you, your children, your children's children, your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.

    11 There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."'

  • Gen 46:31
    79%

    31 Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father's house, "I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, 'My brothers, and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.

  • Gen 47:1
    78%

    1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land of Canaan; and behold, they are in the land of Goshen."

  • Gen 47:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11 Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

    12 Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

  • Gen 45:13
    76%

    13 You shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. You shall hurry and bring my father down here."

  • Gen 41:55
    76%

    55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."

  • Gen 43:2
    76%

    2 It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."

  • Gen 45:4
    76%

    4 Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please." They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

  • Gen 45:25
    75%

    25 They went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan, to Jacob their father.

  • Gen 42:2
    75%

    2 He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."

  • Gen 50:8
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    8 all the house of Joseph, his brothers, and his father's house. Only their little ones, their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 46:6
    74%

    6 They took their livestock, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt--Jacob, and all his seed with him,

  • Gen 50:5-6
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    74%

    5 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"

    6 Pharaoh said, "Go up, and bury your father, just like he made you swear."

  • Gen 46:28
    74%

    28 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 50:21
    74%

    21 Now therefore don't be afraid. I will nourish you and your little ones." He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

  • Gen 44:21
    74%

    21 You said to your servants, 'Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.'

  • Gen 48:21
    73%

    21 Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

  • 1 Kgs 11:18
    73%

    18 They arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him food, and gave him land.

  • Gen 41:41
    73%

    41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."

  • Gen 42:5
    73%

    5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.