Genesis 47:23

The English Standar Version

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

2 Corinthians 9:10

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

Matthew 24:45

"Who then is the faithful and wise servant,[3] whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?

Isaiah 55:10

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

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.

Proverbs 13:23

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

Proverbs 12:11

Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.

Proverbs 11:26

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

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 the one who considers the poor![1] In the day of trouble the LORD delivers him;

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 41:27

The seven lean and ugly 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 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 that 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."