Genesis 47:25
And they said, You have saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
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Genesis 18:3And said, My LORD, if now I have found favour in your sight, pass not away, I pray you, from your servant:
Genesis 33:15And Esau said, Let me now leave with you some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needs it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.
Genesis 45:6For these two years has the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earring nor harvest.
Ruth 2:13Then she said, Let me find favour in your sight, my lord; for that you have comforted me, and for that you have spoken friendly unto yours handmaid, though I be not like unto one of yours handmaidens.
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 →