Genesis 47:23

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Joseph said to the people, ‘Understand today that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh. Here is seed for you. Sow it in the land.

Cross References

2 Corinthians 9:10

Now the one who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will also provide and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

Matthew 24:45

‘Who then is a faithful and wise servant,   whom his master has put in charge of his household, to give them food at the proper time?

Isaiah 55:10

For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return there without saturating the earth and making it germinate and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow your seed, and at evening do not let your hand rest, because you don’t know which will succeed, whether one or the other, or if both of them will be equally good.

Proverbs 13:23

The uncultivated field of the poor yields abundant food, but without justice, it is swept away.

Proverbs 12:11

The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies lacks sense.

Proverbs 11:26

People will curse  anyone who hoards grain, but a blessing will come to the one who sells it.

Genesis 45:6

For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years without ploughing or harvesting.

Genesis 41:27

The seven thin, sickly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven worthless ears of corn scorched by the east wind are seven years of famine.

Genesis 47:22

The only land he did not acquire belonged to the priests, for they had an allowance from Pharaoh. They ate from their allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.

Genesis 47:24

At harvest, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh,  and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and as food for yourselves, your households, and your dependents.’