Genesis 47:12

Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.

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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

11Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

13There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

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Cross References

Genesis 45:7God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

Genesis 45:11There I will provide for you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have.”’

Genesis 47:21As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.

Genesis 50:21Now therefore don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” He comforted them, and spoke kindly to them.

Ruth 4:15He shall be to you a restorer of life and sustain you in your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

Matthew 15:4For God commanded, ‘Honour your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

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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