Genesis 47:23

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land.

Cross References

Genesis 41:27

The seven lean and gaunt cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven empty ears blighted by the east wind are also seven years of famine.

Genesis 45:6

For the famine has been in the land these two years; and there are yet five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

Genesis 47:22

Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh, and lived on the allowance which Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.

Genesis 47:24

And at the harvests you shall give a 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.”

Psalm 112:5

It is well with the man who deals generously and lends, who conducts his affairs with justice.

Psalm 41:1

Blessed is he who considers the poor! The Lord delivers him in the day of trouble;

Proverbs 11:26

The people curse him who holds back grain, but a blessing is on the head of him who sells it.

Proverbs 12:11

He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits has no sense.

Proverbs 13:23

The fallow ground of the poor yields much food, but it is swept away through injustice.

Ecclesiastes 11:6

In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand; for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Isaiah 55:10

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return not thither but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,

Matthew 24:45

“Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?

2 Corinthians 9:10

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your resources and increase the harvest of your righteousness.