Genesis 47
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Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.
And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.
And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.
They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:

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The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

is.

Genesis 47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession …

Genesis 13:9 Is not the whole land before you? separate yourself, I pray you, …

Genesis 20:15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before you: dwell where it pleases you.

Genesis 34:10 And you shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell …

Genesis 45:18-20 And take your father and your households, and come to me: and I will …

Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: …

John 17:2 As you have given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal …

Goshen.

Genesis 47:4,11 They said morever to Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; …

men of activity. Ansey chayil, men of strength, power, ability, or prowess. It implies both fitness of mind and body; and so valour, prudence, diligence, and virtue.

rulers.

Exodus 18:21 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as …

1 Samuel 21:7 Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained …

1 Chronicles 27:29-31 And over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite…

2 Chronicles 26:10 Also he built towers in the desert, and dig many wells: for he had …

Proverbs 22:29 See you a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; …

cattle {Mikneh}, from {kanah}, to posses, signifies {property or possession} of any kind, though it frequently is used for {cattle}, because in ancient times they constituted the principal part of a man's possessions.

Genesis 47:16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, …

Exodus 9:3-6,10,21 Behold, the hand of the LORD is on your cattle which is in the field, …

And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?

How old art thou. Heb. How many are the days of the years of thy life?

Genesis 47:9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage …

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

The days.

1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our …

Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace …

Psalm 119:19,54 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not your commandments from me…

2 Corinthians 5:6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at …

Hebrews 11:9-16 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, …

Hebrews 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

1 Peter 2:11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain …

and hundred.

Job 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

Psalm 39:5 Behold, you have made my days as an handbreadth; and my age is as …

Psalm 89:47,48 Remember how short my time is: why have you made all men in vain…

Psalm 90:3-12 You turn man to destruction; and say, Return, you children of men…

James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your …

have not.

Genesis 47:28 And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole …

Genesis 5:27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: …

Genesis 11:11,24,25 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat …

Genesis 25:7,8 And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, …

Genesis 35:28 And the days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.

Genesis 50:26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed …

Exodus 6:4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the …

Exodus 7:7 And Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three …

Deuteronomy 34:7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye …

Joshua 24:29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, …

2 Samuel 19:32-35 Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and …

Job 8:8,9 For inquire, I pray you, of the former age, and prepare yourself …

Job 42:16,17 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, …

And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.
And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.

Give your cattle.. This was the wisest measure that could be adopted, both for the preservation of the people and the cattle. As the people had not grain for their own sustenance, consequently they could have none for their cattle: hence they were in the most immediate danger of starving; and the people also were in equal danger; as they must have divided a portion of that bought for themselves with the cattle, which, for the sake of tillage, etc., they wished of course to preserve till the seven years' famine should end.

Daniel 6:5-7 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this …

Proverbs 12:17 He that speaks truth shows forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.

1 Corinthians 10:32 Give none offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor …

Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are …

Colossians 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.
When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.

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And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.
Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.
And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.
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.
And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.
And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.
And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

must die.

Genesis 47:9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage …

Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return to …

Genesis 50:24 And Joseph said to his brothers, I die: and God will surely visit you…

Deuteronomy 31:14 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must …

2 Samuel 7:12 And when your days be fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, …

2 Samuel 14:14 For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which …

1 Kings 2:1 Now the days of David drew near that he should die; and he charged …

Job 7:1 Is there not an appointed time to man on earth? are not his days …

Job 14:14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time …

Job 30:23 For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed …

Psalm 6:5 For in death there is no remembrance of you: in the grave who shall …

Psalm 49:7,9 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God …

Psalm 89:48 What man is he that lives, and shall not see death? shall he deliver …

Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment:

put.

Genesis 24:2 And Abraham said to his oldest servant of his house, that ruled over …

deal kindly.

Genesis 24:49 And now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: …

bury me not.

Genesis 50:24,25 And Joseph said to his brothers, I die: and God will surely visit you…

Acts 7:15,16 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers…

Hebrews 11:22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the …

But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.

Swear.

Genesis 24:3 And I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the …

And Israel bowed. As {shachah}, which primarily signifies to {bow}, denotes also to {worship}; and as {mittah, a bed} pronounced {matteh} is a {staff}; the LXX. have taken the passage in the latter sense, and rendered it [] `and Israel worshipped upon the top of his staff,' which is literally copied by the apostle Paul, in his Epistle to the Hebrews. The present reading is, however, supported by the Maoretic pointing and the Targums; and is most probably correct, as it would appear that Jacob was confined to his bed.

Genesis 47:29 And the time drew near that Israel must die: and he called his son …

Genesis 24:26 And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.

Genesis 48:1,2 And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, …

1 Kings 1:47 And moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, …

Hebrews 11:21 By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; …

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