Genesis 47:25 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁵ And 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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ 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 I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant.

Genesis 32:6

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

Genesis 33:15

So Esau said, “Let me leave with you some of the men who are with me.” But he said, “What need is there? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”

Genesis 41:45

And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

Genesis 47:24

And at the harvests you shall give a 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 50:20

As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

Genesis 6:19

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

Ruth 2:13

Then she said, “You are most gracious to me, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not one of your maidservants.”