Genesis 47:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ They said, “You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be slaves to Pharaoh.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ 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

²⁵ 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)

²⁵ 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

²⁵ The people said, “You’ve saved our lives. If you wish, we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ 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."

Genesis 47:25 Cross References

Genesis 33:15

So Esau said, “Let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “Why should my lord be so kind to me?”

Ruth 2:13

Then she said, “May I continue to find favor in your sight, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, even though I am not one of your servants.”

Genesis 50:20

Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.

Genesis 41:45

Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah, and he gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, as his wife. Thus Joseph gained authority over the land of Egypt.

Genesis 18:3

He said, “My lord, if I find favor with you, do not pass by your servant.

Genesis 6:19

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

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 47:26

So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. The land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh’s.

Genesis 32:6

The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau, and he is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”