Genesis 45:18
Get your father and your households and come to me. I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'
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Genesis 27:28May God give you a portion of the dew of heaven, 1 a portion of the fatness of the earth, 1 and plenty of grain and new wine. 1
Numbers 18:12All the best of the oil, all the best of the new wine and grain, the firstfruits that the people give to me—all these things I have given to you.
Deuteronomy 32:14He ate butter from the herd and drank milk from the flock, 1 with fat of lambs, 1 rams of Bashan and goats, 1 with the finest of the wheat— 1 and you drank foaming wine made from the juice of grapes. 1
Psalms 147:14He brings prosperity inside your borders, 1 he satisfies you with the finest of wheat. 1
Isaiah 28:4The fading flower of his glorious beauty, that is on the head of the rich valley, 1 will be as the first ripe fig before the summer, that, when someone sees it, 1 while it is yet in his hand, he gulps it down. 1
Matthew Henry on Genesis 45:17-25
Pharaoh's Kindness to Joseph. ( b. c. 1707.) 16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; 18 And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land. 19 Now thou art commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out… Read the whole commentary →