Genesis 47:25 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁵ And they said, “You have saved our lives. Let us find favour in the eyes of my master, and we shall become Pharaoh’s servants.”

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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, “יהוה, if I have now found favour in Your eyes, please do not pass Your servant by.

Genesis 32:6

So the messengers returned to Ya‛aqoḇ, saying, “We came to your brother Ěsaw, and he also is coming to meet you, and four hundred men with him.”

Genesis 33:15

And Ěsaw said, “Please let me leave with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “Why this? Let me find favour in the eyes of my master.”

Genesis 41:45

And Pharaoh called Yosĕph’s name Zaphnath-Pa‛nĕaḥ. And he gave him as a wife Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On. And Yosĕph went out over all the land of Mitsrayim.

Genesis 47:24

And it shall be that in the harvest you shall give one-fifth to Pharaoh. And four-fifths is your own, as seed for the field and for your food, for those of your households and as food for your little ones.

Genesis 47:26

And Yosĕph made it a law over the land of Mitsrayim to this day, that Pharaoh should have one-fifth, except for the ground of the priests only, which did not become Pharaoh’s.

Genesis 50:20

“And you, you intended evil against me, but Elohim intended it for good, in order to do it as it is this day, to keep a great many people alive.

Genesis 6:19

“And of all the living of all flesh, two of each, you are to bring into the ark, to keep them alive with you – a male and a female.

Ruth 2:13

And she said, “Let me find favour in your eyes, my master, because you have comforted me, and have spoken to the heart of your female servant, though I am not like one of your female servants.”