Genesis 47:23

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.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 bought he not, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore they sold not their land.

24And it shall come to pass at the ingatherings, that ye shall give a fifth unto Pharaoh, and 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 these two years hath the famine been in the land; and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing 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 shall 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 swept away by want of righteousness.

Isaiah 28:24Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, with the opening and harrowing of his ground?

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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