Genesis 47:19

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

Don't let us starve and our land be ruined. If you'll give us grain to eat and seed to plant, we'll sell ourselves and our land to the king. We'll become his slaves.

Cross References

Job 2:4

Satan answered, “There's no pain like your own. People will do anything to stay alive.

Lamentations 5:9

We are in danger from brutal desert tribes; we must risk our lives just to bring in our crops.

Lamentations 5:6

We had to surrender to Egypt and Assyria because we were hungry.

Lamentations 1:11

Everyone in the city groans while searching for food; they trade their valuables for barely enough scraps to stay alive. Jerusalem shouts to the Lord, “Please look and see how miserable I am!”

Matthew 16:26

What will you gain, if you own the whole world but destroy yourself? What would you give to get back your soul?

Genesis 47:15

But when everyone had run out of money, the Egyptians came to Joseph and demanded, “Give us more grain! If you don't, we'll soon be dead, because our money's all gone.”

Genesis 47:18

Then the people came to him and said: Sir, there's no way we can hide the truth from you. We are broke, and we don't have any more animals. We have nothing left except ourselves and our land.

Genesis 47:20

The famine became so severe that Joseph finally bought every piece of land in Egypt for the king

Genesis 41:36

It can be stored until it is needed during the seven years when there won't be enough grain in Egypt. This will keep the country from being destroyed because of the lack of food.