Genesis 47:12

And Joseph supplied his father, and his brothers, and all his father's household, with bread, in proportion to their families.

Leeser Tanakh

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 assigned places of residence for his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Ra'meses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

13And there was no bread in all the land: for the famine was very sore; and the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

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Cross References

Genesis 45:7And God hath thus sent me before you to prepare for you a permanence on the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

Genesis 45:11And I will maintain thee there; for there are yet five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

Genesis 47:21And as for the people, he removed them to the cities, from one end of the borders of Egypt to the other end thereof.

Genesis 50:21Now therefore fear ye not, I will support you, and your little ones; and he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them.

Ruth 4:15And may he be unto thee one who refresheth thy soul, and who nourisheth thy old age; for thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee, hath born him, she who is better to thee than seven sons.

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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