Genesis 45:18
Good News Translation
Let them get their father and their families and come back here. I will give them the best land in Egypt, and they will have more than enough to live on.

New Revised Standard Version
Take your father and your households and come to me, so that I may give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you may enjoy the fat of the land.’

Contemporary English Version
Tell them to bring their father and their families here. I will give them the best land in Egypt, and they can eat and enjoy everything that grows there.

New American Bible
There get your father and your households, and then come to me; I will assign you the best land in Egypt, where you will live off the fat of the land.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
And bring away from thence your father and kindred, and come to me; and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, that you may eat the marrow of the land.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And bring away from thence your father and kindred, and come to me; and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, that you may eat the marrow of the land.

the fat.

Genesis 27:28 God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance of corn and wine.

Genesis 47:6 The land of Egypt is before thee: and make them dwell in the best place, and give them the land of Gessen. And if thou knowest that there are industrious men among them, make them rulers over my cattle.

Numbers 18:12,29 All the best of the oil, and of the wine, and of the corn, whatsoever firstfruits they offer to the Lord, I have given them to thee. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.

Psalm 81:16 And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.

Psalm 147:14 Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the fat of corn.

Isaiah 28:1,4 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower the glory his joy, who were on the head of the fat valley, staggering with wine. . . .

Context
Pharaoh Invites Jacob to Egypt
17And he spoke to Joseph that he should give orders to his brethren, saying: Load your beasts, and go into the land of Chanaan, 18And bring away from thence your father and kindred, and come to me; and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, that you may eat the marrow of the land.19Give orders also that they take wagons out of the land of Egypt, for the carriage of their children and their wives; and say: Take up your father, and make haste to come with all speed:…
Cross References
Genesis 27:28
God give thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, abundance of corn and wine.

Genesis 45:17
And he spoke to Joseph that he should give orders to his brethren, saying: Load your beasts, and go into the land of Chanaan,

Genesis 46:34
You shall answer: We, thy servants, are shepherds, from our infancy until now, both we and our fathers. And this you shall say, that you may dwell in the land of Gessen, because the Egyptians have all shepherds in abomination.

Genesis 47:6
The land of Egypt is before thee: and make them dwell in the best place, and give them the land of Gessen. And if thou knowest that there are industrious men among them, make them rulers over my cattle.

Genesis 45:17
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