Genesis 47:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:

Genesis 45:11

and there will I nourish thee; for there are yet five years of famine; lest thou come to poverty, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast.

Genesis 45:7

And God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.

Genesis 47:1

Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

Genesis 47:21

And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

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 50:21

Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

Exodus 20:12

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Isaiah 22:24

And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the vessels of cups even to all the vessels of flagons.

1 Thessalonians 2:7

But we were gentle in the midst of you, as when a nurse cherisheth her own children:

1 Timothy 4:8

for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.

1 Timothy 5:4

But if any widow hath children or grandchildren, let them learn first to shew piety towards their own family, and to requite their parents: for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

1 Timothy 5:8

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

Ruth 4:15

And he shall be unto thee a restorer of life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.