Genesis 47:19 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁹ “Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and let us and our land be servants of Pharaoh. And give us seed, and let us live and not die, and let the land not lie waste.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ Why should we perish before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed [to plant], that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Why should we die before your eyes, we and our farmland too? Buy us and our farms for food, and we and our farms will be under Pharaoh’s control. Give us seed so that we can stay alive and not die, and so that our farmland won’t become unproductive.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Therefore, why should you watch us die? Both we and our land will be yours. Buy us into royal servitude, but provide seed, lest by the dying off of cultivators the land be reduced to a wilderness."

Genesis 47:19 Cross References

Genesis 41:36

“And the food shall be for a store for the land for the seven years of scarcity of food which shall be in the land of Mitsrayim, and do not let the land be cut off by the scarcity of food.”

Genesis 47:15

And when the silver was all spent in the land of Mitsrayim and in the land of Kenaʽ

Genesis 47:18

And when that year had ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We do not hide from my master that our silver is all spent, and my master also has the livestock we owned. There has not any been left before my master but our bodies and our lands.

Genesis 47:20

And Yosĕ

Job 2:4

And Satan answered יהוה  and said, “Skin for skin, and all that a man has he would give for his life!

Lamentations 1:11

All her people are sighing, seeking bread. They have given their precious matters For food, to bring back life. “See, O יהוה, and look, For I have become despised.”

Lamentations 5:6

To Mitsrayim we have given a hand; To Ashshur, to be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 5:9

With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

Matthew 16:26

“For what is a man profited if he gains all the world, and loses his own life? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?