Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Joseph made provision for his father, his brethren, and all his father's household, as young children are fed with bread.
New American Standard Bible
Joseph
King James Version
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
Holman Bible
And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food for their dependents.
International Standard Version
Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, proportionate to the number of young children.
A Conservative Version
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
American Standard Version
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
Amplified
Joseph provided and supplied his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to [the needs of] their children.
Bible in Basic English
And Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of their families.
Darby Translation
And Joseph maintained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the number of the little ones.
Julia Smith Translation
And Joseph will nourish his father and his brethren, and all the house of his father, with bread according to the mouth of the little ones.
King James 2000
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all his father's household, with food, according to their families.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all the household of his father with food, according to the number of their children.
Modern King James verseion
And Joseph nourished his father and his brothers, and all his father's household, with bread, for the mouth of the little ones.
NET Bible
Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father's household, according to the number of their little children.
New Heart English Bible
Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
The Emphasized Bible
And Joseph nourished his father and his brethren, and all his father's house, - with bread, according to the need of their little ones.
Webster
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread according to their families.
World English Bible
Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
Youngs Literal Translation
and Joseph nourisheth his father, and his brethren, and all the house of his father with bread, according to the mouth of the infants.
Themes
Children » Instances of » Joseph
Children » Good » Take care of parents
Good Children » Take care of parents
jacob » The land of goshen assigned to
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 47:12
Prayers for Genesis 47:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Jacob Settles In Goshen
11 And Joseph prepared dwellings for his father and his brethren, and gave them possessions in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land: even in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded. 12 And Joseph made provision for his father, his brethren, and all his father's household, as young children are fed with bread. 13 There was no bread in all the land, for the dearth was exceeding sore: so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan, were famished by the reason of the dearth.
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Cross References
Genesis 45:11
There will I make provision for thee: for there remain yet five years of dearth, lest thou and thy household and all that thou hast perish.'
Genesis 47:1
and Joseph went and told Pharaoh, and said, "My father and my brethren, their sheep and their beasts and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan and are in the land of Goshen."
Genesis 47:21
And he appointed the people unto the cities, from one side of Egypt unto the other:
Genesis 47:24
And of the increase, ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed to sow the field: and for you, and them of your households, and for your children, to eat."
Exodus 20:12
"Honour thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Ruth 4:15
and that shall bring thy life again and cherish thine old age. For thy daughter-in-law which loveth thee hath borne him that is better to thee than seven sons."
Matthew 15:4-6
For God commanded, saying, 'Honour thy father and mother,' and, 'He that curseth father or mother, shall suffer death.'
Mark 7:10-13
For Moses said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother,' and, 'Whosoever curseth father or mother, let him die for it.'
1 Thessalonians 2:7
But were tender among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children,
1 Timothy 4:8
For bodily exercise profiteth little: But godliness is good unto all things, as a thing which hath promises of the life that is now, and of the life to come.
1 Timothy 5:4
If any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to rule their own houses godly, and to recompense their elders. For that is good and acceptable before God.
1 Timothy 5:8
If there be any that provideth not for his own, and namely for them of his household, the same denieth the faith, and is worse than an infidel.