Genesis 45:16

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Summary

And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

It pleased pharaoh well

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Genesis 46:31

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It pleased pharaoh well

And Abram said to Sarai, Behold, thy maidservant is in thy hand: do to her what is good in thine eyes. And Sarai oppressed her; and she fled from her face.

And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it is good in thine eyes.

And their words were good in the eyes of Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son.

And now let Pharaoh look himself out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

who went in the way before you, to search you out a place for your encamping, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.

And all the people remarked it, and it pleased them; as whatever the king did pleased all the people.

And the thing pleased the king and the whole congregation.

And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan.

And let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends to him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king that Mordecai may be hanged on it: then go in merrily with the king to the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte of Antioch,

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And Joseph said to his brethren and to his father's house, I will go up, and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, My brethren and my father's house, who were in the land of Canaan, are come to me;