Genesis 47:12

And Ioseph made prouysion for his father his brethern and all his fathers housholde as yonge childern are fedd with bread.

William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)

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 prepared dwellinges for his father and his brethern and gaue them possessions in the londe of Egipte in the best of the londe: eue in the lande of Raemses as Pharao commaunded.

13There was no bread in all the londe for the derth was exceadige sore: so yt ye lode of Egipte and ye lode of Canaan were fameshyd by ye reason of ye derth.

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Cross References

Genesis 45:7Wherfore God sent me before you to make prouision that ye myghte continue in the erth and to save youre lyues by a greate delyuerance.

Genesis 45:11There will I make provision for the: for there remayne yet v yeres of derth lest thou and thi houshold and all that thou hast perish.

Genesis 47:21And he appoynted the people vnto the cities from one syde of Egipte vnto the other:

Genesis 50:21feare not therfore for I will care for you and for youre childern and he spake kyndly vnto them.

Matthew 15:4For God comaunded sayinge: honoure thy father and mother and he that cursseth father or mother shall suffer deeth.

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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