Genesis 47:12

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

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And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

In Context

11And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, 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.

13And 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.

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Cross References

Genesis 45:7And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

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

Genesis 47:21And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

Genesis 50:21Now therefore fear all of you not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spoke kindly unto them.

Ruth 4:15And he shall be unto you a restorer of your life, and a nourisher of yours old age: for your daughter in law, which loves you, which is better to you than seven sons, has born him.

Matthew 15:4For God commanded, saying, Honour your father and mother: and, He that curses 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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