Genesis 45:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Take your father and your households and come to me, so that I may give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you may enjoy the fat of the land.’

Cross References

Genesis 27:28

May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine.

Genesis 45:17

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your animals and go back to the land of Canaan.

Genesis 46:34

you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our ancestors,’ in order that you may settle in the land of Goshen, because all shepherds are abhorrent to the Egyptians.”

Genesis 47:6

The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land; let them live in the land of Goshen; and if you know that there are capable men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”

Psalm 147:14

He grants peace within your borders; he fills you with the finest of wheat.

Psalm 81:16

I would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

Isaiah 28:1

Woe to the proud garland of the drunkards of Ephraim and the fading flower of its glorious beauty, at the head of the fertile valley, those overcome with wine!

Isaiah 28:4

And the fading flower of its glorious beauty, at the head of the fertile valley, will be like a first-ripe fig before the summer; whoever sees it eats it up as soon as it comes to hand.

Numbers 18:12

All the best of the oil and all the best of the wine and of the grain, the choice produce that they give to the Lord, I have given to you.

Numbers 18:29

Out of all the gifts to you, you shall set apart every offering due to the Lord; the best of all of them is the part to be consecrated.

Deuteronomy 32:14

curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs and rams, Bashan bulls and goats, together with the choicest wheat— you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.