Genesis 47:19

World Messianic Bible British Edition

Why should 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. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”

Cross References

Genesis 41:36

The food will be to supply the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; so that the land will not perish through the famine.”

Genesis 47:15

When the money was all spent 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 our 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 from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

Genesis 47:20

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every man of the Egyptians sold his field, because the famine was severe on them, and the land became Pharaoh’s.

Job 2:4

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

Lamentations 1:11

All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul. “Look, LORD, and see, for I have become despised.”

Lamentations 5:6

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

Lamentations 5:9

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?