Verse 23
Genesis 47:23
New King James Version
23
Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo,
here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר יוֹסֵף֙ אֶל הָ/עָ֔ם הֵן֩ קָנִ֨יתִי אֶתְ/כֶ֥ם הַ/יּ֛וֹם וְ/אֶת אַדְמַתְ/כֶ֖ם לְ/פַרְעֹ֑ה הֵֽא לָ/כֶ֣ם זֶ֔רַע וּ/זְרַעְתֶּ֖ם אֶת הָ/אֲדָמָֽה
English Translation
And Joseph said to the people, "Behold, I have bought you today and your land for Pharaoh; here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land."
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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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3
And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What
is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servant...
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4
They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pa...
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5
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...
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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,...
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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31
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head.
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