Genesis 47:6

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you can choose wherever you like in Egypt, the best place, for them to live. Let them live in Goshen. If you know any of them who are good at what they do, put them in charge of my livestock as well.”

Cross References

Genesis 13:10

Lot looked over the whole Jordan valley towards Zoar, and saw that it was well-watered, looking like the Garden of Eden, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

Genesis 13:9

You see all this land that's available right in front of you? We have to split up. If you choose to go to the left, I'll go to the right. If you choose to go to the right, I'll go to the left.”

Genesis 20:15

Abimelech told him, “Look over my land. You can choose to live anywhere you like.”

Genesis 34:10

You can live among us and settle down wherever you like. You can go where you want and buy land for yourselves.”

Genesis 45:10

You'll live in the land of Goshen so you can be close to me with your children and grandchildren, and with your flocks and herds and everything that belongs to you.

Genesis 46:34

tell him, ‘Your servants have looked after livestock since we were children, both us and our fathers before us.’ That way you'll be able to live here in Goshen, because Egyptians look down on shepherds.”

Genesis 47:11

So Joseph arranged for his father and brothers to live in Egypt and gave them land in the best part near Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.

Genesis 47:16

“Bring me your livestock,” Joseph told them. “I'll give you grain in exchange for your livestock if you've run out of money.”

Genesis 47:4

“We have come to live in Egypt because there's no grass left in Canaan for our flocks to eat,” they explained. “The famine is really bad in Canaan. So we would like to please ask permission to live in Goshen.”

Genesis 47:5

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Now that your father and brothers have arrived to join you,

1 Kings 11:28

Jeroboam was a man of ability, and when Solomon realized how successful he was in what he did, he placed him in command of all the forced labor of the tribes of Joseph.

2 Chronicles 26:10

He also built towers in the desert and cut many water cisterns out of the rock, because he had a great deal of livestock in the foothills and on the plains. He had farmers and vineyard workers in the hills and in the fertile lowlands, for he loved the soil.

Exodus 18:21

But now you should choose men who are competent from among the people, men who respect God and who are trustworthy and not corrupt. Put them in charge of the people as leaders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.

Exodus 18:25

So Moses chose competent men from all of Israel and put them in charge of the people as leaders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.

Exodus 9:10

They got soot from a furnace, and went to see Pharaoh. Moses threw it into the air, and open sores broke out on people and animals.

Exodus 9:21

But those who didn't care what the Lord said left their servants and livestock outside.

Proverbs 21:1

The Lord directs the king's decisions like a stream of water that he sends whichever way he wants.

Proverbs 22:29

If you see someone skilled in what they do, they'll work for kings and not for ordinary people.

Jeremiah 40:4

But notice that now I'm removing the chains from your wrists and releasing you. If you want to come with me to Babylon then you can come, and I will look after you. But if you think it's a bad idea to come with me to Babylon, you don't have to go any farther. Look, you're free to go anywhere in the country. Go wherever is good for you—do what you think is right.”

John 17:2

For you gave him authority over all people so that he might give eternal life to all those you have given to him.

1 Samuel 21:7

One of Saul's servants happened to be there that day, trying to make himself right with the Lord. He was Doeg the Edomite, Saul's chief shepherd.