Genesis 47:23

And Joseph said unto the people, Lo! I have bought you this day, and your ground for Pharaoh,—see, here is seed for you, so shall ye sow the ground;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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, the ground of the priests, bought he not,—for the priests had a statutory-portion, from Pharaoh and they had been eating their statutory-portion, which Pharaoh had given them, for which cause, they had not sold their ground.

24and it shall come to pass that, of the yield, ye shall give a fifth to Pharaoh,—but the four parts, shall be your own—for seed for the field, and for your food and for them who are in your households and for food for your little ones.

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Cross References

Genesis 45:6For these two years, hath the famine been in the midst of the land,—and, yet five years, are there, in which there shall be neither ploughing, nor harvest.

Psalms 107:36And hath caused the famished to dwell there, And they have built them a city to dwell in;

Proverbs 11:26He that keepeth back corn, the populace will curse him, but there is, a blessing, for the head of him that selleth.

Proverbs 13:23Much food, is in the fallow ground of the poor, but there is that is swept away, for want of justice.

Isaiah 28:24All day long, doth the plowman plow for sowing? Doth he continue laying open and harrowing his soil?

Matthew 24:45Who then is the faithful and prudent servant, whom the master hath appointed over his household, to give them food in 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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