Genesis 47:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their dependents.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And Joseph supplied his father and his brethren and all his father's household with food, according to [the needs of] their families.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

Common English Bible

¹² Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and his father’s entire household, in proportion to the number of children.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And he fed them, along with all his father's house, providing portions of food to each one.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² And he nourished them, and all his father's house, allowing food to every one.

Genesis 47:12 Cross References

Genesis 45:10

You shall settle in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children’s children, as well as your flocks, your herds, and all that you have.

Genesis 45:11

I will provide for you there, since there are five more years of famine to come, so that you and your household and all that you have will not come to poverty.’

Genesis 45:7

God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to keep alive for you many survivors.

Genesis 47:1

So Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan; they are now in the land of Goshen.”

Genesis 47:21

As for the people, he made slaves of them from one end of Egypt to the other.

Genesis 47:24

And at the harvests you shall give one-fifth to Pharaoh, and four-fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households and as food for your little ones.”

Genesis 50:21

So have no fear; I myself will provide for you and your little ones.” In this way he reassured them, speaking kindly to them.

Exodus 20:12

“Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Isaiah 22:24

And they will hang on him the whole weight of his ancestral house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons.

1 Thessalonians 2:7

though we might have made demands as apostles of Christ. But we were gentle among you, like a nurse tenderly caring for her own children.

1 Timothy 4:8

for, while physical training is of some value, godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.

1 Timothy 5:4

If a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn their religious duty to their own family and make some repayment to their parents, for this is pleasing in God’s sight.

1 Timothy 5:8

And whoever does not provide for relatives, and especially for family members, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Ruth 4:15

He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has borne him.”