Archive THE BIBLE - Verse by Verse (Genesis Chapters 1 to 50)

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Genesis 47:19 (NASB)

Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. So give us seed, so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”
 
Genesis 47:22 (NLT)
The only land he did not buy was the land belonging to the priests.
They received an allotment of food directly from Pharaoh, so they didn't need to sell their land.
 
Genesis 47:23 (NLT)
Then Joseph said to the people, "Look, today I have bought you and your land for Pharaoh. I will provide you with seed so that you can plant the fields."
 
Genesis 47:26 (NLT) - 26 Joseph then issued a decree still in effect in the land of Egypt, that Pharaoh should receive one-fifth of all the crops grown on his land. Only the land belonging to the priests was not given to Pharaoh.


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Genesis 47:27 (NLT) - 27 Meanwhile, the people of Israel settled in the region of Goshen in Egypt. There they acquired property, and they were fruitful, and their population grew rapidly.


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Genesis 47:29 (NLT)
As the time of his death drew near, Jacob called for his son Joseph and said to him "Please do me this favor. Put your hand under my thigh and swear that you will treat ne with unfailing love by honoring this last request. Do not bury me in Egypt.
 
Genesis 47:31 (NLT) - 31 “Swear that you will do it,” Jacob insisted. So Joseph gave his oath, and Jacob bowed humbly at the head of his bed.


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Genesis 48:1 (NLT)
One day not long after this, word came to Joseph, "Your father is failing rapidly." So Joseph went to visit him, and he took with him his two sons Manahasseh and Ephraim.
 
Genesis 48:2 (NLT)
When Joseph arrived, Jacob was told, "Your son Joseph has come to see you." So Jacob gathered his strength and sat up in bed.
 
Genesis 48:4 (NLT)
He said to me, 'I will make you a great nation and I will give this land of Canaan to you and to your children's children's children for an everlasting possession.
 
Genesis 48:5 (NLT)
And now as to these two sons of yours, Ephraim and Manasseh, born here in the land of Egypt before I arrived, I am adopting⁸em as my own , and they will inherit from me just as Reuben and Simeon will.
 
Genesis 48:7 (NLT)

7 “Long ago, as I was returning from Paddan-aram, Rachel died in the land of Canaan. We were still on the way, some distance from Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem). So with great sorrow I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath.”


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