Genesis 47:23

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

Darby Translation

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 the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had an assigned portion from Pharaoh, and ate their assigned portion which Pharaoh had given them; so they did not sell their land.

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

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Cross References

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

Psalms 107:36And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, and they establish a city of habitation;

Proverbs 11:26He that withholdeth corn, the people curse him; but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

Proverbs 13:23Much food is in the tillage of the poor; but there is that is lost for want of judgment.

Isaiah 28:24Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he [all day] opening and breaking the clods of his land?

Matthew 24:45Who then is the faithful and prudent bondman whom his lord has set over his household, to give them food in season?

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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