Genesis 41:34

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Let Pharaoh proceed to appoint overseers over the land and take one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven plenteous years.

Cross References

Genesis 41:33

Now therefore let Pharaoh select a man who is discerning and wise and set him over the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:35

Let them gather all the food of these good years that are coming and lay up grain under the authority of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

Genesis 47:24

And at the harvests you shall give one-fifth to Pharaoh, and four-fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households and as food for your little ones.”

Genesis 47:26

So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. The land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh’s.

2 Chronicles 34:12

The people did the work faithfully. Over them were appointed the Levites Jahath and Obadiah, of the sons of Merari, along with Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to have oversight. Other Levites, all skillful with instruments of music,

Nehemiah 11:9

Joel son of Zichri was their overseer, and Judah son of Hassenuah was second in charge of the city.

Job 5:20

In famine he will redeem you from death and in war from the power of the sword.

Psalm 33:19

to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine.

Proverbs 22:3

The clever see danger and hide, but the simple go on and suffer for it.

Proverbs 27:12

The clever see danger and hide, but the simple go on and suffer for it.

Numbers 31:14

Moses became angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who had come from service in the war.

Luke 16:5

So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’