Genesis 47:12

And Ioseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his fathers houshold with bread, euen to the yong children.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 Ioseph placed his father, and his brethren, and gaue them possession in the lande of Egypt, in the best of the land, euen in the lande of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

13Now there was no bread in all the land: for the famine was exceeding sore: so that the land of Egypt, and the land of Canaan were famished by reason of the famine.

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Cross References

Genesis 45:7Wherefore God sent me before you to preserue your posteritie in this land, and to saue you aliue by a great deliuerance.

Genesis 45:11Also I will nourish thee there (for yet remaine fiue yeeres of famine) lest thou perish through pouertie, thou and thy houshold, and all that thou hast.

Genesis 47:21And he remoued the people vnto the cities, from one side of Egypt euen to the other.

Genesis 50:21Feare not nowe therefore, I will nourish you, and your children: and hee comforted them, and spake kindly vnto them.

Ruth 4:15And this shall bring thy life againe, and cherish thine olde age: for thy daughter in lawe which loueth thee, hath borne vnto him, and she is better to thee then seuen sonnes.

Matthew 15:4For God hath commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and he that curseth father or mother, let him die the 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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