Parallel Verses

King James 2000

And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.

New American Standard Bible

and take your father and your households and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt and you will eat the fat of the land.’

King James Version

And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

Holman Bible

Get your father and your families, and come back to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you can eat from the richness of the land.’

International Standard Version

get your father and your households, and come back to me. I'll give you the best of the land of Egypt and you can live off the abundance of the land.'

A Conservative Version

and take your father and your households, and come to me. And I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

American Standard Version

and take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

Amplified

and get your father and your households and come to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt and you will eat the fat (the finest produce) of the land.’

Bible in Basic English

And get your father and your families and come back to me: and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, and the fat of the land will be your food.

Darby Translation

and take your father and your households, and come to me; and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

Julia Smith Translation

And take your father and your houses, and come to me: and I will give to you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the heart of the land.

Lexham Expanded Bible

and take your father and your households and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.'

Modern King James verseion

and take your father and your households and come to me. And I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

take your father and your households and come unto me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.'"

NET Bible

Get your father and your households and come to me! Then I will give you the best land in Egypt and you will eat the best of the land.'

New Heart English Bible

Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'

The Emphasized Bible

and fetch your father and your households and come in unto me, - that I may give you the best of the land of Egypt, and eat ye the fat of the land.

Webster

And take your father, and your households, and come to me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

World English Bible

Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'

Youngs Literal Translation

and take your father, and your households, and come unto me, and I give to you the good of the land of Egypt, and eat ye the fat of the land.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

and come

come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

unto me and I will give
נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

you the good
טוּב 
Tuwb 
Usage: 32

of the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

of Egypt
מצרים 
Mitsrayim 
Usage: 681

and ye shall eat
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

the fat
חלב חלב 
Cheleb 
Usage: 92

References

Easton

Fausets

Fat

Watsons

Context Readings

Joseph Reveals His Identity

17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto your brothers, This do you; load your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan; 18 And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land. 19 Now you are commanded, this do you; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

Cross References

Genesis 27:28

Therefore God give you of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine:

Genesis 47:6

The land of Egypt is before you; in the best of the land make your father and brothers to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if you know any men of ability among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

Numbers 18:12

All the best of the oil, and all the best of the wine, and of the wheat, the first fruits of them which they shall offer unto the LORD, them have I given you.

Numbers 18:29

Out of all your gifts you shall offer every heave offering of the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.

Deuteronomy 32:14

Curds of the cattle, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat; and you did drink the pure blood of the grape.

Psalm 81:16

He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied you.

Psalm 147:14

He makes peace in your borders, and fills you with the finest of the wheat.

Isaiah 28:1

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which is on the head of the rich valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

Isaiah 28:4

And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the early fruit before the summer; which when he that looks upon it sees it, while it is yet in his hand he eats it up.

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