and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t pass over your servant.
Genesis 47:25 - Y'all Version Bible They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’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 pass over your servant.
The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”
Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me.” He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-Paneah. He gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On as a wife. Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
At the harvests, y’all will give a fifth to Pharaoh. The other four parts will be your* own, as seed for the field, as food for y’all and your* households, and food for y’all’s little ones.”
Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth. Only the land of the priests alone didn’t become Pharaoh’s.
Y’all meant to harm me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.
You are to bring two of every sort of every living creature of flesh into the ark, male and female, to keep them alive with you.
Then she said, “Let me find favor in your eyes, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not one of your servants.”