Genesis 47:19

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

why therefore shall we die, while thou seest this? both we and our land shall be thine; buy thou us into the king’s servage, and give thou us seeds to sow, lest while the tiller perisheth, the land be turned into wilderness.

Cross References

Genesis 41:36

and be it made ready to the hunger to coming [or to come] of the seven years that shall oppress Egypt, and the land be not wasted by poverty.

Genesis 47:15

And when price failed to the buyers, all Egypt came to Joseph, and said, Give thou loaves to us; why shall we die before thee, while money faileth?

Genesis 47:18

And they came in the second year, and said to him, We cover not from our lord, that the while money faileth, also our beasts failed altogether, neither it is hid from thee, that without bodies and land, we have nothing;

Genesis 47:20

Therefore Joseph bought all the land of Egypt, while all men sold him their possessions, for the greatness of hunger; and he made it and all the peoples thereof subject to Pharaoh,

Job 2:4

To whom Satan answered, and said, A man shall give skin for skin, and all things that he hath for his life;

Lamentations 1:11

All the people thereof was wailing and seeking bread, they gave all precious things for meat, to strengthen the soul; and the city saith, See thou, Lord, and behold, for I am made vile.

Lamentations 5:6

We gave hand to Egypt, and to Assyrians, that we should be [ful] filled with bread.

Lamentations 5:9

In our lives we brought bread to us, from the face of [the] sword in desert.

Matthew 16:26

For what profiteth it to a man [or what profiteth to a man], if he win all the world, and suffer impairing of his soul? or what exchanging shall a man give for his soul?