Genesis 47:23

Then Joseph said to the people : Be- hold as you see, both you and your lands belong to Pharao: take seed and sow the fields,

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

22Except the land of the priests, which had been given them by the king: to whom also a certain allowance of food was given out of the public stores, and therefore they were not forced to sell their possessions.

24That you may have corn. The fifth part you shall give to the king: the other four you shall have for seed, and for food for your families and children.

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Cross References

Genesis 45:6For it is two years since the famine began to be upon the land, and five years more remain, wherein there can be neither ploughing nor reaping.

Psalms 107:36And hath placed there the hungry; and they made a city for their habitation.

Proverbs 11:26He that hideth up corn, shall be cursed among the people: but a blessing upon the head of them that sell.

Proverbs 13:23Much food is in the tillage of fathers: but for others it is gathered with out judgment.

Isaiah 28:24Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and harrow his ground?

Matthew 24:45Who, thinkest thou, is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath appointed over his family, to give them meat 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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