and said, *My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.
Genesis 47:25 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) They said, *You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Par`oh's servants.* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they said, You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord; and we will be Pharaoh's servants. American Standard Version (1901) And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants. Common English Bible The people said, “You’ve saved our lives. If you wish, we will be Pharaoh’s slaves.” Catholic Public Domain Version And they responded: "Our health is in your hand; only let our lord look kindly upon us, and we will serve the king with gladness." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they answered: Our life is in thy hand. Only let my lord look favourably upon us, and we will gladly serve the king. |
and said, *My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don't go away from your servant.
The messengers returned to Ya`akov, saying, *We came to your brother Esav. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him.*
Esav said, *Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me.* He said, *Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.*
Par`oh called Yosef's name Zaphenath-Paneah; and he gave him Asenat, the daughter of Potiphera Kohen of On as a wife. Yosef went out over the land of Egypt.
It will happen at the harvests, that you shall give a fifth to Par`oh, and four parts will be your own, for seed of the field, for your food, for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.*
Yosef made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Par`oh should have the fifth. Only the land of the Kohanim alone didn't become Par`oh's.
As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the teivah, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.
Then she said, Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens.