Verse 19
Genesis 47:19
New King James Version
19
Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give
us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לָ֧/מָּה נָמ֣וּת לְ/עֵינֶ֗י/ךָ גַּם אֲנַ֨חְנוּ֙ גַּ֣ם אַדְמָתֵ֔/נוּ קְנֵֽה אֹתָ֥/נוּ וְ/אֶת אַדְמָתֵ֖/נוּ בַּ/לָּ֑חֶם וְ/נִֽהְיֶ֞ה אֲנַ֤חְנוּ וְ/אַדְמָתֵ֨/נוּ֙ עֲבָדִ֣ים לְ/פַרְעֹ֔ה וְ/תֶן זֶ֗רַע וְ/נִֽחְיֶה֙ וְ/לֹ֣א נָמ֔וּת וְ/הָ/אֲדָמָ֖ה לֹ֥א תֵשָֽׁם
English Translation
Why should we die in your sight? We and our land buy us and our land with bread, and we will be slaves to Pharaoh, and give seed so that we may live and not die, and the land will not be desolate.
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Chapter 47 Context
1
Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their...
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2
And he took some of his brethren,
even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
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And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What
is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servant...
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They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pa...
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And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:
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6
The land of Egypt
is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in...
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7
And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
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8
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old
art thou?
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9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage
are an hundred and thirty years:...
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10
And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
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11
And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in t...
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12
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, accor...
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13
And
there was no bread in all the land; for the famine
was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and...
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14
And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan,...
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15
And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto J...
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16
And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.
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17
And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread
in exchange for horses, and fo...
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18
When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide
it...
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19
Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and w...
20
And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, bec...
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21
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from
one
end of the borders of Egypt even to the
o...
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22
Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion
assigned them of Pharaoh,...
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23
Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo,...
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24
And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth
part unto Pharaoh, and four...
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25
And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be...
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26
And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day,
that Pharaoh should have the fifth
pa...
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27
And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, a...
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28
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty...
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29
And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now...
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30
But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingpl...
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And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head.
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