Genesis 47:12

And Joseph maintained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the number of the little ones.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

In Context

11And Joseph settled his father and his brethren, 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.

13And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very grievous; and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan were exhausted through the famine.

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Cross References

Genesis 45:7So God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

Genesis 45:11And there will I maintain thee; for yet there are five years of famine; in order that thou be not impoverished, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast.

Genesis 47:21And as for the people, he removed them into the cities, from [one] end of the borders of Egypt even to the [other] end of it.

Genesis 50:21And now, fear not: I will maintain you and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke consolingly to them.

Ruth 4:15And he shall be to thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age; for thy daughter-in-law who loves thee, who is better to thee than seven sons, has borne him.

Matthew 15:4For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 47:2-13

Pharaoh's Generosity; Jacob Presented to Pharaoh. ( b. c. 1706.) 1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. 2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. 4 They… Read the whole commentary →

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