Genesis 47:19

Lighthouse Bible 2006

Why shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

Cross References

Genesis 41:36

And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

Genesis 47:15

And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in your presence? for the money fails.

Genesis 47:18

When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide it from my lord, that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of cattle; there is not anything left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:

Genesis 47:20

And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for all the Egyptian men sold their fields, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.

Job 2:4

And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man has will he give for his life.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I have become vile.

Lamentations 5:6

We have given our hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 5:9

We got our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

Matthew 16:26

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?