Genesis 47:24

World English Bible (2000)

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."

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  • Gen 41:34 : 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce in the seven plenteous years.
  • Gen 47:25 : 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."
  • Lev 27:32 : 32 All the tithe of the herds or the flocks, whatever passes under the rod, the tenth shall be holy to Yahweh.
  • 1 Sam 8:15-17 : 15 He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. 16 He will take your male servants, and your female servants, and your best young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work. 17 He will take the tenth of your flocks: and you shall be his servants.
  • Ps 41:1 : 1 Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
  • Ps 112:5 : 5 It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.

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  • Gen 41:34-36
    3 verses
    80%

    34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt's produce in the seven plenteous years.

    35 Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

    36 The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine."

  • Gen 47:25-26
    2 verses
    79%

    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 47:22-23
    2 verses
    77%

    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.

    23 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.

  • Gen 47:16-20
    5 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Gen 41:47-48
    2 verses
    73%

    47 In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly.

    48 He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was around every city, he laid up in the same.

  • Gen 45:20
    72%

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

  • Gen 45:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    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."'

  • 1 Sam 8:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14 He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

    15 He will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.

  • 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 47:4
    71%

    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."

  • Gen 47:14
    71%

    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.

  • Lev 25:7
    70%

    7 For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

  • Lev 19:25
    70%

    25 In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am Yahweh your God.

  • Gen 47:12
    70%

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

  • Gen 41:55
    70%

    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 47:6
    70%

    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."

  • Deut 15:14
    69%

    14 you shall furnish him liberally out of your flock, and out of your threshing floor, and out of your winepress; as Yahweh your God has blessed you, you shall give to him.

  • Deut 14:22
    69%

    22 You shall surely tithe all the increase of your seed, that which comes forth from the field year by year.

  • Lev 25:20
    69%

    20 If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;"

  • Deut 24:19
    68%

    19 When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

  • Gen 41:29-30
    2 verses
    68%

    29 Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.

    30 There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

  • Gen 42:25
    68%

    25 Then Joseph gave a command to fill their bags with grain, and to restore each man's money into his sack, and to give them food for the way. So it was done to them.

  • Gen 39:5
    68%

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