Genesis 47:23

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

Leeser Tanakh

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 assigned them by Pharaoh, and they ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them: therefore they did not sell their land.

24And it shall come to pass in the harvest times, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh; and four parts shall be your own, for the seed of the field, and for your food, and for those belonging to 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 already in the land; and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvesting.

Psalms 107:36And there he causeth to dwell the hungry, that they may found an inhabited city;

Proverbs 11:26Him that withholdeth corn, the people will denounce; but blessing will be heaped upon the head of the one that selleth it.

Proverbs 13:23Much food bringeth the new-tilled ground of the poor; but there are many others that are taken away through injustice.

Isaiah 28:24Doth the ploughman plough all the time to sow? doth he open and harrow his ground [continually]?

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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