Genesis 47:23

Then Joseph said to the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh. Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

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In The King James Version

Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

In Context

22Only he did not buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. Therefore they did not sell their land.

24And it shall come to pass at the ingatherings, that ye shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for those of your households, and for food for your little ones.

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Cross References

Genesis 45:6For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.

Psalms 107:36And there he makes the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city of habitation,

Proverbs 11:26The people shall curse him who withholds grain, but a blessing shall be upon the head of him who sells it.

Proverbs 13:23Much food [is in] the tillage of the poor, but there is [that is] consumed because of injustice.

Isaiah 28:24Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he [continually] open and harrow his ground?

Matthew 24:45Who then is the faithful and wise bondman, whom his lord appointed over his service, to give them the provision on time?

Matthew Henry on Genesis 47:14-27

Distressed Occasioned by the Famine. ( b. c. 1706.) 13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. 15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said,… Read the whole commentary →

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