Genesis 47:12
Good News Translation
Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all the rest of his father's family, including the very youngest.

New Revised Standard Version
And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their dependents.

Contemporary English Version
Joseph also provided food for their families.

New American Bible
And Joseph provided food for his father and brothers and his father’s whole household, down to the youngest.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he nourished them, and all his father's house, allowing food to every one.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he nourished them, and all his father's house, allowing food to every one.

nourished.

Ruth 4:15 And thou shouldst have one to comfort thy soul, and cherish thy old age. For he is born of thy daughter in law: who loveth thee: and is much better to thee, than if thou hadst seven sons.

his father.

Exodus 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother, that thou mayst be longlived upon the land which the Lord thy God will give thee.

Matthew 15:4-6 Honour thy father and mother: And: He that shall curse father or mother, let him die the death. . . .

Mark 7:10-13 For Moses said: Honour thy father and thy mother. And He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die. . . .

1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

1 Timothy 5:4,8 But if any widow have children or grandchildren, let her learn first to govern her own house and to make a return of duty to her parents; for this is acceptable before God. . . .

according to their families.

Genesis 47:1,21,24 Then Joseph went in and told Pharao, saying: My father and brethren, their sheep and their herds, and all that they possess, are come out of the land of Chanaan: and behold they stay in the land of Gessen. . . .

1 Thessalonians 2:7 Whereas we might have been burdensome to you, as the apostles of Christ: but we became little ones in the midst of you, as if a nurse should cherish her children:

Context
Jacob Settles in Goshen
11But Joseph gave a possession to his father and his brethren in Egypt, in the best place of the land, in Ramesses, as Pharao had commanded. 12And he nourished them, and all his father's house, allowing food to every one.
Cross References
Genesis 45:11
And there I will feed thee, (for there are yet five years of famine remaining) lest both thou perish, and thy house, and all things that thou hast.

Genesis 50:21
Fear not: I will feed you and your children. And he comforted them, and spoke gently and mildly.

Genesis 47:11
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