Genesis 47:23

Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh. Behold, here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

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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 he didn’t buy the land of the priests, for the priests had a portion from Pharaoh, and ate their portion which Pharaoh gave them. That is why they didn’t sell their land.

24It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Pharaoh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.”

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Cross References

Genesis 45:6For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.

Psalms 107:36There he makes the hungry live, that they may prepare a city to live in,

Proverbs 11:26People curse someone who withholds grain, but blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

Proverbs 13:23An abundance of food is in poor people’s fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

Isaiah 28:24Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?

Matthew 24:45“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due 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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