Genesis 47:19

Catholic Public Domain Version

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."

Cross References

Genesis 41:36

And let it be prepared for the future famine of seven years, which will oppress Egypt, and then the land will not be consumed by destitution."

Genesis 47:15

And when the buyers had run out of money, all Egypt came to Joseph, saying: "Give us bread. Why should we die in your sight, lacking money?"

Genesis 47:18

Likewise, they came the second year, and they said to him: "We will not conceal from our lord that our money is gone; likewise our cattle are gone. Neither are you unaware that we have nothing left but our bodies and our land.

Genesis 47:20

Therefore, Joseph bought all the land of Egypt, each one selling his possessions because of the magnitude of the famine. And he subjected it to Pharaoh,

Job 2:4

Answering him, Satan said, "Skin for skin; and everything that a man has, he will give for his life.

Lamentations 1:11

CAPH. All her people are groaning and seeking bread. They have given up whatever was precious in exchange for food, so as to remain alive. See, O Lord, and consider, for I have become vile.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 5:9

We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.

Matthew 16:26

For how does it benefit a man, if he gains the whole world, yet truly suffers damage to his soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?