Genesis 45:18
And get your father and your families and come back to me: and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, and the fat of the land will be your food.
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Genesis 27:28May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain and wine in full measure:
Numbers 18:12All the best of the oil and the wine and the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give to the Lord, to you have I given them.
Deuteronomy 32:14Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape.
Psalms 147:14He gives peace in all your land, making your stores full of fat grain.
Isaiah 28:4And the dead flower of his glory, which is on the head of the fertile valley, will be like the first early fruit before the summer; which a man takes and puts in his mouth the minute he sees it.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 45:17-25
Pharaoh's Kindness to Joseph. ( b. c. 1707.) 16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; 18 And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. 19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out… Read the whole commentary →