Genesis 47:23

And Joseph says to the people, “Behold, I have bought you today and your ground for Pharaoh; behold, seed for you, and you have sown the ground,

Literal Standard Version

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 ground of the priests he has not bought, for the priests have a portion from Pharaoh, and they have eaten their portion which Pharaoh has given to them, therefore they have not sold their ground.

24and it has come to pass in the increases, that you have given a fifth to Pharaoh, and four of the parts are for yourselves, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for those who [are] in your houses, and for food for your infants.”

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Cross References

Genesis 45:6Because these two years the famine [is] in the heart of the land, and yet five years [remain in] which there is neither plowing nor harvest;

Psalms 107:36And He causes the hungry to dwell there, || And they prepare a city of habitation.

Proverbs 11:26Whoever is withholding grain, the people execrate him, || And a blessing [is] for the head of him who is selling.

Proverbs 13:23Abundance of food—the tillage of the poor, || And substance is consumed without judgment.

Isaiah 28:24Does the plowman plow the whole day to sow? He opens and harrows his ground!

Matthew 24:45Who, then, is the servant, faithful and wise, whom his lord set over his household, to give them the nourishment 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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