Genesis 47:23

World English Bible (2000)

Then Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

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  • Gen 41:27 : 27 The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.
  • Gen 45:6 : 6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
  • Ps 41:1 : 1 Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
  • Ps 107:36-37 : 36 There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in, 37 sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.
  • Ps 112:5 : 5 It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
  • Prov 11:26 : 26 People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.
  • Prov 12:11 : 11 He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who chases fantasies is void of understanding.
  • Prov 13:23 : 23 An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.
  • Eccl 11:6 : 6 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don't withhold your hand; for you don't know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.
  • Isa 28:24-25 : 24 Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods? 25 When he has leveled its surface, doesn't he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?
  • Isa 55:10 : 10 For as the rain comes down and the snow from the sky, and doesn't return there, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, and gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
  • Matt 24:45 : 45 "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
  • 2 Cor 9:10 : 10 Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 47:16-22
    7 verses
    85%

    16 Joseph said, "Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone."

    17 They brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the donkeys: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their livestock for that year.

    18 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

    19 Why should 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. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."

    20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh's.

    21 As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.

    22 Only he didn't buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn't sell their land.

  • Gen 47:24-26
    3 verses
    77%

    24 It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones."

    25 They said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."

    26 Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn't become Pharaoh's.

  • Gen 42:5-6
    2 verses
    75%

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

    6 Joseph was the governor over the land. It was he who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came, and bowed themselves down to him with their faces to the earth.

  • Gen 47:14
    74%

    14 Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

  • Gen 41:41
    73%

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

  • Gen 45:10
    73%

    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.

  • Gen 45:20
    73%

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

  • Gen 47:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    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 39:1
    72%

    1 Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.

  • Gen 47:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    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."

  • Gen 45:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

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

    18 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.'

  • Gen 41:57
    72%

    57 All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

  • Gen 41:55
    71%

    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 47:1
    71%

    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 42:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    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."

    3 Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

  • Gen 45:8
    70%

    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.

  • Gen 48:4
    70%

    4 and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.'

  • Gen 37:28
    70%

    28 Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. They brought Joseph into Egypt.