Verse 23
Genesis 47:23
Geneva Bible
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Then Ioseph sayd vnto the people, Behold, I haue bought you this daye, and your lande for Pharaoh: lo, here is seede for you: sowe therefore the grounde.
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
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Then came Ioseph and tolde Pharaoh, and sayde, My father, and my brethren, and their sheepe, and the...
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And Ioseph tooke part of his brethren, euen fiue men, and presented them vnto Pharaoh.
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Then Pharaoh said vnto his brethren, What is your trade? And they answered Pharaoh, Thy seruants are...
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They sayde moreouer vnto Pharaoh, For to soiourne in ye lande are we come: for thy seruants haue no...
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Then spake Pharaoh to Ioseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come vnto thee.
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The lande of Egypt is before thee: in the best place of the land make thy father and thy brethren dw...
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Ioseph also brought Iaakob his father, and set him before Pharaoh. And Iaakob saluted Pharaoh.
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Then Pharaoh sayde vnto Iaakob, Howe olde art thou?
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And Iaakob sayd vnto Pharaoh, The whole time of my pilgrimage is an hundreth and thirty yeeres: fewe...
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And Iaakob tooke leaue of Pharaoh, and departed from the presence of Pharaoh.
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And Ioseph placed his father, and his brethren, and gaue them possession in the lande of Egypt, in t...
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And Ioseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his fathers houshold with bread, euen to...
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Now there was no bread in all the land: for the famine was exceeding sore: so that the land of Egypt...
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And Ioseph gathered all the money, that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, f...
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So when money fayled in the lande of Egypt, and in the lande of Canaan, then all the Egyptians came...
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Then saide Ioseph, Bring your cattell, and I will giue you for your cattell, if your money be spent.
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So they brought their cattell vnto Ioseph, and Ioseph gaue them bread for the horses, and for the fl...
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But when the yeere was ended, they came vnto him the next yeere, and sayd vnto him, We will not hide...
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Why shall we perish in thy sight, both we, and our land? bye vs and our land for bread, and we and o...
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So Ioseph bought all the lande of Egypt for Pharaoh: for the Egyptians solde euery man his ground be...
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And he remoued the people vnto the cities, from one side of Egypt euen to the other.
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Onely the lande of the Priestes bought he not: for the Priestes had an ordinarie of Pharaoh, and the...
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Then Ioseph sayd vnto the people, Behold, I haue bought you this daye, and your lande for Pharaoh: l...
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And of the encrease ye shall giue the fifth part vnto Pharaoh, and foure partes shalbe yours for the...
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Then they answered, Thou hast saued our liues: let vs finde grace in the sight of my Lord, and we wi...
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Then Ioseph made it a lawe ouer the land of Egypt vnto this day, that Pharaoh should haue the fift p...
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And Israel dwelt in the lande of Egypt, in the countrey of Goshen: and they had their possessions th...
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Moreouer, Iaakob liued in the lande of Egypt seuenteene yeeres, so that the whole age of Iaakob was...
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Now when the time drewe neere that Israel must dye, he called his sonne Ioseph, and sayde vnto him,...
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But when I shall sleepe with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury mee in their bur...
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The he said, Sweare vnto me. And he sware vnto him. And Israel worshipped towardes the beds head.
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