Genesis 47:25 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And they said, You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord; and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

American Standard Version (1901)

And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.

Common English Bible

The people said, “You’ve saved our lives. If you wish, we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And they responded: "Our health is in your hand; only let our lord look kindly upon us, and we will serve the king with gladness."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And they answered: Our life is in thy hand. Only let my lord look favourably upon us, and we will gladly serve the king.

Genesis 47:25 Cross References

Genesis 18:3

and said, My lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:

Genesis 32:6

And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and moreover he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.

Genesis 33:15

And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.

Genesis 41:45

And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On. And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

Genesis 47:24

And it shall come to pass at the ingatherings, that ye shall give a fifth unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.

Genesis 47:26

And Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; only the land of the priests alone became not Pharaoh's.

Genesis 50:20

And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

Genesis 6:19

And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

Ruth 2:13

Then she said, Let me find grace in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken kindly unto thine handmaid, though I be not as one of thine handmaidens.