Genesis 47:25

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘You have saved our lives,’ they said. ‘We have found favour with our lord and will be Pharaoh’s slaves.’

Cross References

Genesis 33:15

Esau said, ‘Let me leave some of my people with you.’ But he replied, ‘Why do that? Please indulge me,  my lord.’

Ruth 2:13

‘My lord,’ she said, ‘I have found favour with you, for you have comforted and encouraged your servant, although I am not like one of your female servants.’

Genesis 50:20

You planned evil against me; God planned it for good to bring about the present result #– #the survival of many people.

Genesis 41:45

Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah and gave him a wife, Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest at On.  And Joseph went throughout  the land of Egypt.

Genesis 18:3

and said, ‘My lord, if I have found favour with you, please do not go on past your servant.

Genesis 6:19

You are also to bring into the ark two of all the living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you.

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.’

Genesis 47:26

So Joseph made it a law, still in effect today in the land of Egypt, that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh. Only the priests’ land does not belong to Pharaoh.

Genesis 32:6

When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, ‘We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you #– #and he has four hundred men with him.’