Genesis 47:12

And Joseph sustained his father and his brethren, and all the house of his father, with bread, according to the mouth of the family (of each).

Targum Onkelos

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 made his father and his brethren to dwell, and gave them a possession in the land of Mizraim, in the best of the land, in the land of Ramesis, as Pharoh had commanded.

13And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine prevailed greatly, and the people of the land of Mizraim and the people of the land of Kenaan failed before the famine.

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Cross References

Genesis 45:7And the Lord sent me before you to set a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.

Genesis 45:11And I will nourish thee there; for there are yet five years of famine, lest thou, and the men of thy house, and all that thou hast, be wasted away.

Genesis 47:21And the people he made him to pass from city to city, from one end of the limit of Mizraim to the other.

Genesis 50:21And now do not fear; I will sustain you and your children. And he consoled them, and spake consolation to their heart.

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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