Genesis 47 (NET)

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Genesis 47:1¹Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father, my brothers, their flocks and herds, and all that they own have arrived from the land of Canaan. They are now in the land of Goshen.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 45:10 Gen 46:31 Gen 46:28 Exod 8:22 Exod 9:26 Gen 45:16 Gen 46:34 Heb 2:11

Genesis 47:2²He took five of his brothers and introduced them to Pharaoh.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:13 2 Cor 4:14 Col 1:28 Jude 1:24

Genesis 47:3³Pharaoh said to Joseph’s brothers, “What is your occupation?” They said to Pharaoh, “Your servants take care of flocks, just as our ancestors did.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 46:33-34 2 Thess 3:10 Amos 7:14-15 Gen 4:2 Jonah 1:8

Genesis 47:4⁴Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as temporary residents in the land. There is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 46:34 Deut 26:5 Gen 15:13 Gen 43:1 Acts 7:11 Ps 105:23 Acts 7:6 Gen 12:10 Isa 52:4

Genesis 47:5⁵Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 47:6⁶The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best region of the land. They may live in the land of Goshen. If you know of any highly capable men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 18:21 Gen 47:11 Prov 22:29 2 Chr 26:10 Exod 18:25 Gen 47:4 1 Chr 27:29-31 1 Sam 21:7 Exod 9:10 Exod 9:21

Genesis 47:7⁷Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 47:10 1 Kgs 1:47 1 Pet 2:17 1 Sam 2:20 2 Kgs 4:29 2 Sam 14:22 2 Sam 19:39 2 Sam 8:10 Exod 12:32 Gen 35:27

Genesis 47:8⁸Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How long have you lived?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 47:9⁹Jacob said to Pharaoh, “All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 14:1 Ps 39:12 Gen 35:28 Ps 39:5 1 Pet 2:11 Deut 34:7 Exod 6:4 Exod 7:7 Gen 50:26 Jas 4:14

Genesis 47:10¹⁰Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from his presence.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 47:7 2 Sam 19:39 2 Sam 8:10 Deut 33:1 Gen 14:19 Heb 7:7 Ps 129:8 Num 6:23-27 Ps 119:46 Ruth 2:4

Genesis 47:11¹¹So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses, just as Pharaoh had commanded.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 1:11 Exod 12:37 Gen 47:6 John 10:10 John 10:28 John 14:2 John 14:23 John 17:2 John 17:24

Genesis 47:12¹²Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household, according to the number of their little children.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 45:11 1 Thess 2:7 1 Tim 4:8 1 Tim 5:4 1 Tim 5:8 Exod 20:12 Gen 47:1 Gen 47:21 Gen 47:24 Mark 7:10-13

Genesis 47:13¹³But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away because of the famine.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 7:11 1 Kgs 18:5 Gen 41:30-31 Jer 14:1-6 Jer 9:12 Joel 1:10-12 Lam 2:19-20 Lam 4:9

Genesis 47:14¹⁴Joseph collected all the money that could be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan as payment for the grain they were buying. Then Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s palace.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 41:56 Luke 16:10-12 1 Cor 4:2 1 Pet 4:10 Luke 16:1-2

Genesis 47:15¹⁵When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was used up, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food! Why should we die before your very eyes because our money has run out?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 21:3 1 Sam 25:8 Gen 47:18-19 Gen 47:24 Judg 8:5 Judg 8:8 Matt 6:11 Ps 37:3 Isa 33:16

Genesis 47:16¹⁶Then Joseph said, “If your money is gone, bring your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:32 Col 4:5 Dan 6:5-7 Phil 4:8 Prov 12:17

Genesis 47:17¹⁷So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for their horses, the livestock of their flocks and herds, and their donkeys. He got them through that year by giving them food in exchange for all their livestock.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 10:28 Exod 9:3 Isa 31:1 Job 2:4 Matt 6:24

Genesis 47:18¹⁸When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We cannot hide from our lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Kgs 6:26 Jer 38:9

Genesis 47:19¹⁹Why should we die before your very eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we, with our land, will become Pharaoh’s slaves. Give us seed that we may live and not die. Then the land will not become desolate.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 2:4 Neh 5:2-3 Lam 1:11 Lam 5:6 Lam 5:9 Matt 16:26 Phil 3:8-9

Genesis 47:20²⁰So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe. So the land became Pharaoh’s.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 47:21²¹Joseph made all the people slaves from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end of it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 41:48

Genesis 47:22²²But he did not purchase the land of the priests because the priests had an allotment from Pharaoh and they ate from their allotment that Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezra 7:24 1 Cor 9:13 1 Tim 5:17 2 Sam 8:18 2 Thess 3:10 Deut 12:19 Gal 6:6 Gen 14:18 Gen 41:45 Gen 41:50

Genesis 47:23²³Joseph said to the people, “Since I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you. Cultivate the land.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 9:10 Eccl 11:6 Gen 41:27 Gen 45:6 Isa 28:24-25 Isa 55:10 Matt 24:45 Prov 11:26 Prov 12:11 Prov 13:23

Genesis 47:24²⁴When the crop comes in, give one-fifth of it to Pharaoh. The remaining four-fifths will be yours for seed for the fields and for you to eat, including those in your households and your little children.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 41:34 Ps 112:5 Ps 41:1 1 Sam 8:15-17 Gen 47:25 Lev 27:32

Genesis 47:25²⁵They replied, “You have saved our lives! You are showing us favor, and we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 33:15 Gen 18:3 Gen 41:45 Gen 45:6-8 Gen 50:20 Gen 6:19 Prov 11:26-27 Ruth 2:13

Genesis 47:26²⁶So Joseph made it a statute, which is in effect to this day throughout the land of Egypt: One-fifth belongs to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not become Pharaoh’s.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 47:22 Ezek 7:24

Genesis 47:27²⁷Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 46:3 Exod 1:7 Acts 7:17 Ps 107:38 Deut 26:5 Gen 26:4 Ps 105:24 Zech 10:8 Deut 10:22 Exod 1:12

Genesis 47:28²⁸Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; the years of Jacob’s life were 147 in all.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 90:10 Gen 37:2 Gen 47:8-9 Ps 119:84 Ps 90:12

Genesis 47:29²⁹The time for Israel to die approached, so he called for his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 31:14 Gen 24:2 Gen 24:49 1 Kgs 2:1 Acts 7:15-16 Gen 50:24-25 2 Sam 14:14 2 Sam 7:12 Gen 3:19 Gen 47:9