Genesis 45:11

I'll make sure you have food, because there are still five more years of famine to come. Otherwise you and your family and your animals are going to starve.’”

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In The King James Version

And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

In Context

10You'll live in the land of Goshen so you can be close to me with your children and grandchildren, and with your flocks and herds and everything that belongs to you.

12Then Joseph told his brothers, “You can all see for yourselves—including my brother Benjamin—that it's really me talking to you!

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Cross References

Genesis 47:6you can choose wherever you like in Egypt, the best place, for them to live. Let them live in Goshen. If you know any of them who are good at what they do, put them in charge of my livestock as well.”

Genesis 50:21So don't worry. I'll go on taking care of you and your children.” Speaking kindly like this he calmed them down.

Matthew 15:5But you say that if someone tells their father or mother, ‘Whatever you might have expected to get from me is now a gift to God,’ then

1 Timothy 5:4For the Christian responsibility of a widow's children or grandchildren is to do their duty for their own family, and repay their parents by helping them out. This is what pleases God.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 45:2-16

Joseph Discovers Himself to His Brethren. ( b. c. 1707.) 1 Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. 2 And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard. 3 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence. 4 And Joseph said unto his… Read the whole commentary →

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