Genesis 47:23

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Summary

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.

Bought

Genesis 47:19

Here is seed

Bible References

Bought

Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. So give us seed, that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”

Here is seed

The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven thin ears scorched by the east wind will be seven years of famine.

For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How blessed is he who considers the helpless;
The Lord will deliver him in a day of trouble.

And there He makes the hungry to dwell,
So that they may establish

an inhabited city,

It is well with the man who is gracious and lends;
He will maintain his cause in judgment.

He who withholds grain, the people will curse him,
But blessing will be on the head of him who sells it.

He who tills his land will have plenty of bread,
But he who pursues worthless things lacks sense.

Abundant food is in the fallow ground of the poor,

But it is swept away by injustice.

Sow your seed in the morning and do not be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.

Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed?
Does he continually turn and harrow the ground?

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
And do not return there without watering the earth
And making it bear and sprout,
And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

“Who then is the faithful and sensible slave whom his master put in charge of his household to give them their food at the proper time?

Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness;