You can settle in the land of Goshen and be near me #– #you, your children, and your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and all you have.
Genesis 47:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s family with food for their dependents. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Joseph supplied his father and his brethren and all his father's household with food, according to [the needs of] their families. American Standard Version (1901) And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families. Common English Bible Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and his father’s entire household, in proportion to the number of children. Catholic Public Domain Version And he fed them, along with all his father's house, providing portions of food to each one. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he nourished them, and all his father's house, allowing food to every one. |
You can settle in the land of Goshen and be near me #– #you, your children, and your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and all you have.
There I will sustain you, for there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you, your household, and everything you have will become destitute.’ ”
God sent me ahead of you to establish you as a remnant within the land and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.
So Joseph went and informed Pharaoh: ‘My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all that they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in the land of Goshen.’
and Joseph made the people servants from one end of Egypt to the other.
At harvest, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and as food for yourselves, your households, and your dependents.’
Therefore don’t be afraid. I will take care of you and your children.’ And he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.
Honour your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.
They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s family: the descendants and the offshoots #– #all the small vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.
Although we could have been a burden as Christ’s apostles, instead we were gentle among you, as a nursing mother nurtures her own children.
For the training of the body has limited benefit, but godliness is beneficial in every way, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.
But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn to practise godliness towards their own family first and to repay their parents, for this pleases God.
But if anyone does not provide for his own family, especially for his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. Indeed, your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.’