Devine Scripture

Genesis 47:19

Genesis chapter 47 · verse 19 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

wherefore should 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, and that the land be not desolate.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

wherefore should 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, and that the land be not desolate.

Context

v.18And when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord’s; there is nought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:

v.19This passage

v.20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh’s.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Lamentations 1:11

    All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: See, O Jehovah, and behold; for I am become abject.

  • Matthew 16:26

    For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

  • Lamentations 5:9

    We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

  • Lamentations 5:6

    We have given the hand to the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

  • Nehemiah 5:2

    For there were that said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many: let us get grain, that we may eat and live.

  • Philippians 3:8

    Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ,