Genesis 47:19

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Surely we will die while you are watching. But if you give us food, we will give Pharaoh our land, and we will be his slaves. Give us seed so that we can plant. Then we will live and not die, and the land will grow food for us again.”

Cross References

Job 2:4

Satan answered, “Skin for skin! A man will give everything he has to protect himself.

Lamentations 5:9

We risk our lives to get food. There are men in the desert with swords.

Lamentations 5:6

We made an agreement with Egypt. We also made an agreement with Assyria to get enough bread.

Lamentations 1:11

All the people of Jerusalem are groaning. All of her people are looking for food. They are giving away all their nice things for food to stay alive. Jerusalem says, “Look, Lord. Look at me! See how people hate me.

Matthew 16:26

It is worth nothing for you to have the whole world if you yourself are lost. You could never pay enough to buy back your life.

Genesis 47:15

After some time, the people in Egypt and Canaan had no money left. They had spent all their money to buy grain. So the people of Egypt went to Joseph and said, “Please give us food. Our money is gone. If we don’t eat, we will die while you are watching.”

Genesis 47:18

But the next year the people had no animals and nothing to buy food with. So they went to Joseph and said, “You know that we have no money left, and all our animals belong to you. So we have nothing left—only what you see—our bodies and our land.

Genesis 47:20

So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh. All the people in Egypt sold Joseph their fields. They did this because they were very hungry.

Genesis 41:36

Then during the seven years of hunger, there will be food for the country of Egypt. And Egypt will not be destroyed by the famine.”