Verse 21
Genesis 47:21
Free Bible Version
21
Then Joseph told the people, “Listen to me! Now that I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh, I'm giving you some seed for you to sow the fields.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אֶ֨ת הָ/עָ֔ם הֶעֱבִ֥יר אֹת֖/וֹ לֶ/עָרִ֑ים מִ/קְצֵ֥ה גְבוּל מִצְרַ֖יִם וְ/עַד קָצֵֽ/הוּ
English Translation
And He brought the people through the cities from one end of the border of Egypt to the other end.
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Chapter 47 Context
1
Joseph went to report to Pharaoh and told him, “My father and brothers, along with their flocks and...
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Pharaoh asked the brothers, “What work do you do?” “Your servants are shepherds, just like our fathe...
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“We have come to live in Egypt because there's no grass left in Canaan for our flocks to eat,” they...
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Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Now that your father and brothers have arrived to join you,
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you can choose wherever you like in Egypt, the best place, for them to live. Let them live in Goshen...
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Then Joseph went with his father Jacob and introduced him to Pharaoh. After Jacob blessed Pharaoh,
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Pharaoh asked him, “So how long have you lived?”
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“I have been wandering for 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My life has been short and difficult—I have n...
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So Joseph arranged for his father and brothers to live in Egypt and gave them land in the best part...
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He also provided food for all of them—his father, his brothers, and his father's whole household—dep...
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No food was left in the whole country because the famine had become so bad. Throughout Egypt and Can...
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12
By selling grain Joseph collected all the money in Egypt and Canaan, and placed it in Pharaoh's trea...
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13
Once the money from Egypt and Canaan had run out, the Egyptians all came to Joseph and demanded, “Gi...
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14
“Bring me your livestock,” Joseph told them. “I'll give you grain in exchange for your livestock if...
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So they brought Joseph their livestock, and he provided them with grain in exchange for their horses...
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But when that year was over, they came to him the next year and said, “My lord, we can't hide from y...
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Do you want us to die right in front of you? So buy us and our land in return for food. Then our lan...
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So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh. Each and every Egyptian sold their fields, becau...
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and all the people became his slaves, from one end of Egypt to the other.
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The only land he didn't buy belonged to the priests because they had a food allowance provided to th...
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21
Then Joseph told the people, “Listen to me! Now that I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh, I'...
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However, when it's harvested, you have to give one-fifth of it to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you...
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23
“You've saved our lives,” they declared. “May you continue to treat us well, my lord, and we'll be P...
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So Joseph made it a law for Egypt which is still is in effect today that one-fifth of all produce fr...
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Jacob lived in Egypt for seventeen years, so he lived in total 147 years.
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When the time came for Israel to die, he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If you think we...
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When I die, bury me with my forefathers. You must take my body from Egypt to the family tomb and bur...
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“Swear to me that you will,” he said. Joseph swore that he would. Israel bowed in worship at the hea...
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