Genesis 47:17

Webster's Bible (1833)

They brought their cattle 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 cattle for that year.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 9:3 : 3 behold, the hand of Yahweh is on your cattle which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.
  • 1 Kgs 10:28 : 28 The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt; and the king's merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.
  • Job 2:4 : 4 Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has will he give for his life.
  • Isa 31:1 : 1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don't look to the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Yahweh!
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 47:14-16
    3 verses
    84%

    14Joseph 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.

    15When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails."

    16Joseph said, "Give your cattle; and I will give you food for your cattle, if money fails."

  • Gen 47:18-20
    3 verses
    80%

    18When 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 cattle are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

    19Why 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."

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

  • Gen 43:24-25
    2 verses
    78%

    24The man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet. He gave their donkeys fodder.

    25They made ready the present for Joseph's coming at noon, for they heard that they should eat bread there.

  • Gen 47:12
    77%

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

  • Gen 46:32
    77%

    32These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of cattle, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'

  • Gen 42:25-27
    3 verses
    76%

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

    26They loaded their donkeys with their grain, and departed from there.

    27As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey food in the lodging-place, he saw his money. Behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

  • Gen 45:23
    75%

    23To his father, he sent after this manner: ten donkeys loaded with the good things of Egypt, and ten female donkeys loaded with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.

  • Gen 45:17
    74%

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

  • Gen 45:21
    73%

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

  • Gen 47:1
    73%

    1Then 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 44:1-3
    3 verses
    73%

    1He commanded the steward of his house, saying, "Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth.

    2Put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money." He did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

    3As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.

  • Gen 47:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3Pharaoh said to his brothers, "What is your occupation?" They said to Pharaoh, "Your servants are shepherds, both we, and our fathers."

    4They 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 43:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph's house.

    18The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph's house; and they said, "Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall on us, and take us for bondservants, along with our donkeys."

  • Gen 47:23
    72%

    23Then 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.

  • Ps 105:17
    72%

    17He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

  • Gen 41:57
    71%

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

  • Gen 43:2
    71%

    2It 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 41:54-55
    2 verses
    71%

    54The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

    55When 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 42:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

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

    6Joseph 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.

  • 2 Chr 1:17
    71%

    17They brought up and brought out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for one hundred fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

  • Gen 37:12
    71%

    12His brothers went to feed their father's flock in Shechem.