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THE MESSAGE
Genesis 47:12
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Yosef nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
And Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all the household of his father with food, according to the number of their children.
And Joseph gave his father, his brothers, and everyone who lived with them the food they needed.
Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father's household, according to the number of their little children.
Joseph provided and supplied his father and his brothers and all his father's household with food, according to [the needs of] their children.
Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their little ones.
And Ioseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his fathers houshold with bread, euen to the yong children.
And Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all his father's household with food, according to their little ones.
Joseph also provided food for their families.
Yosef provided food for his father, his brothers and all his father's household, taking full care of even the youngest.
And Joseph maintained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the number of the little ones.
Joseph also gave his father, his brothers, and all their people the food they needed.
And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.
And Joseph supplied his father and his brothers and all his fathers household with wheat according to their families.
Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all the rest of his father's family, including the very youngest.
And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s family with food for their dependents.
And Joseph nourished his father and his brothers, and all his father's house with bread for the mouth of the little ones.
And he made prouysion for his father and his brethren, and all his fathers house with bred, euen as yonge children.
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
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.
And Ioseph made prouision for his father and his brethren, and all his fathers housholde with bread: euen to the mouthes of the young chyldren.
And Joseph sustained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the want of their little ones.
And Ioseph nourished his father and his brethren, and all his fathers houshold with bread, according to their families.
And Joseph gave provision to his father, and his brethren, and to all the house of his father, corn for each person.
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father's household with food for their families.
and he fedde hem, and al the hows of his fadir, and yaf metis to alle.
and Joseph nourisheth his father, and his brethren, and all the house of his father [with] bread, according to the mouth of the infants.
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread according to [their] families.
Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
Then Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with bread, according to the number in their families.
And Joseph provided food for his father and his brothers in amounts appropriate to the number of their dependents, including the smallest children.
Joseph gave food to his father and his brothers and all his father's family, for the needs of their children.
And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.
And Joseph nourished his father and his brethren, and all his father's house, - with bread, according to the need of their little ones.
And he nourished them, and all his father’s house, allowing food to every one.
And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.
Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all his father's household with food, according to their little ones.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
nourished: Ruth 4:15
his father: Exodus 20:12, Matthew 15:4-6, Mark 7:10-13, 1 Timothy 4:8, 1 Timothy 5:4, 1 Timothy 5:8
according to their families: or, as a little child is nourished, Heb. according to the little ones, Genesis 47:1, Genesis 47:21, Genesis 47:24, 1 Thessalonians 2:7
Reciprocal: Genesis 37:9 - the sun Genesis 42:36 - all these things are against me Genesis 45:11 - General Genesis 49:24 - the shepherd Genesis 50:21 - I will nourish Deuteronomy 23:7 - because thou John 19:27 - Behold
Cross-References
Joseph went to Pharaoh and told him, "My father and brothers with their flocks and herds and everything they own have come from Canaan. Right now they are in Goshen."
Joseph went to Pharaoh and told him, "My father and brothers with their flocks and herds and everything they own have come from Canaan. Right now they are in Goshen." He had taken five of his brothers with him and introduced them to Pharaoh. Pharaoh asked them, "What kind of work do you do?" "Your servants are shepherds, the same as our fathers were. We have come to this country to find a new place to live. There is no pasture for our flocks in Canaan. The famine has been very bad there. Please, would you let your servants settle in the region of Goshen?"
The time eventually came when there was no food anywhere. The famine was very bad. Egypt and Canaan alike were devastated by the famine. Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in Egypt and Canaan to pay for the distribution of food. He banked the money in Pharaoh's palace. When the money from Egypt and Canaan had run out, the Egyptians came to Joseph. "Food! Give us food! Are you going to watch us die right in front of you? The money is all gone."
Honor your father and mother so that you'll live a long time in the land that God, your God, is giving you.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And. Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and his father's household, with bread,.... For though there might be in Rameses pasture sufficient for their cattle, yet not corn for their families, the famine still continuing; during which time Joseph, as a dutiful and affectionate son, and as a kind brother, supplied them with all necessary provision, signified by bread:
according to [their] families; according to the number of them, some of his brethren having more and others less in their families; and in proportion to their number he distributed food unto them, so that there was no want: or "according to the mouth of an infant" a; he nourished them like infants, he put as it were the bread into their mouths, and fed them with as much care and tenderness as infants are fed; and they had no more care to provide food for themselves than children have, such a full and constant supply was handed forth to them: in this Joseph was an eminent type of Christ, who supplies the wants of his people.
a לפי הטף "ad os parvuli", Montanus, Schmidt.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
- Jacob in Goshen
11. רעמסס ra‛mesês, Ra‘meses “son of the sun.”
31. מטה mı̂ṭṭāh, “bed.” מטה maṭṭeh “staff.”
Arrangements are now made for the settlement of Israel in Goshen. The administration of Joseph during the remaining years of the famine is then recorded. For the whole of this period his father and brothers are subject to him, as their political superior, according to the reading of his early dreams. We then approach to the death-bed of Jacob, and hear him binding Joseph by an oath to bury him in the grave of his fathers.
Genesis 47:1-12
Joseph announces to Pharaoh the arrival of his kindred. “Of the whole of his brethren,” more exactly from the end of his brethren. Five men, a favorite number in Egypt. Shepherds, owners and feeders of sheep and other cattle. “Pasture.” Hence, it appears that the drought had made the grazing extremely scanty. Men of ability, competent to take the oversight of others. “Jacob his father,” he presents before Pharaoh, after he has disposed of all business matters. “Jacob blessed Pharaoh.” This is the patriarch’s grateful return for Pharaoh’s great kindness and generosity toward him and his house. He is conscious of even a higher dignity than that of Pharaoh, as he is a prince of God; and as such he bestows his precious benediction. Pharaoh was struck with his venerable appearance, and inquired what was his age. “Pilgrimage” - sojourning, wandering without any constant abode or fixed holding.
Such was the life of the patriarchs in the land of promise Hebrews 11:13. “Few and evil.” Jacob’s years at this time were far short of those of Abraham and Isaac, not to speak of more ancient men. Much bitterness also had been mingled in his cup from the time that he beguiled his brother of the birthright and the blessing, which would have come to him in a lawful way if he had only waited in patience. Obliged to flee for his life from his father’s house, serving seven years for a beloved wife, and balked in his expected recompense by a deceitful father-in-law, serving seven long years more for the object of his affections, having his wages changed ten times during the six years of his further toil for a maintenance, afflicted by the dishonor of his only daughter, the reckless revenge taken by Simon and Levi, the death of his beloved wife in childbed, the disgraceful incest of Reuben, the loss of Joseph himself for twenty-two years, and the present famine with all its anxieties - Jacob, it must be confessed, has become acquainted with no small share of the ills of life. “Blessed Pharaoh.” It is possible that this blessing is the same as that already mentioned, now reiterated in its proper place in the narrative. “According to the little ones.” This means either in proportion to the number in each household, or with all the tenderness with which a parent provides for his infant offspring.
Genesis 47:13-26
Joseph introduces remarkable changes into the relation of the sovereign and the people of Egypt. “There was no bread in all the land.” The private stores of the wealthy were probably exhausted. “And Joseph gathered up all the silver.” The old stores of grain and the money, which had flowed into the country during the years of plenty, seem to have lasted for five years. “And Joseph brought the silver into Pharaoh’s house.” He was merely the steward of Pharaoh in this matter, and made a full return of all the payments that came into his hands. “The silver was spent.” The famishing people have no more money; but they must have bread. Joseph is fertile in expedients. He proposes to take their cattle. This was really a relief to the people, as they had no means of providing them with fodder. The value of commodities is wholly altered by a change of circumstances. Pearls will not purchase a cup of water in a vast and dreary wilderness. Cattle become worthless when food becomes scarce, and the means of procuring it are exhausted. For their cattle Joseph supplies them with food during the sixth year.
Genesis 47:18-20
The seventh year is now come. The silver and cattle are now gone. Nothing remains but their lands, and with these themselves as the serfs of the soil. Accordingly they make this offer to Joseph, which he cannot refuse. Hence, it is evident that Pharaoh had as yet no legal claim to the soil. In primeval times the first entrants into an unoccupied country became, by a natural custom, the owners of the grounds they held and cultivated. The mere nomad, who roamed over a wide range of country, where his flocks merely cropped the spontaneous herbage, did not soon arrive at the notion of private property in land. But the husbandman, who settled on a promising spot, broke up the soil, and sowed the seed, felt he had acquired by his labor a title to the acres he had cultivated and permanently occupied, and this right was instinctively acknowledged by others. Hence, each cultivator grew into the absolute owner of his own farm. Hence, the lands of Egypt belonged to the peasantry of the country, and were at their disposal. These lands had now become valueless to those who had neither provisions for themselves nor seed for their ground. They willingly part with them, therefore, for a year’s provision and a supply of seed. In this way the lands of Egypt fell into the hands of the crown by a free purchase. “And the people he removed into the cities.” This is not an act of arbitrary caprice, but a wise and kind measure for the more convenient nourishment of the people until the new arrangements for the cultivation of the soil should be completed. The priestly class were sustained by a state allowance, and therefore, were not obliged to alienate their lands. Hence, they became by this social revolution a privileged order. The military class were also exempted most probably from the surrender of their patrimonial rights, as they were maintained on the crown lands.
Genesis 47:23-26
I have bought you. - He had bought their lands, and so they might be regarded, in some sort, as the servants of Pharaoh, or the serfs of the soil. “In the increase ye shall give the fifth to Pharaoh.” This explains at once the extent of their liability, and the security of their liberty and property. They do not become Pharaoh’s bondmen. They own their land under him by a new tenure. They are no longer subject to arbitrary exactions. They have a stated annual rent, bearing a fixed ratio to the amount of their crop. This is an equitable adjustment of their dues, and places them under the protection of a statute law. The people are accordingly well pleased with the enactment of Joseph, which becomes henceforth the law of Egypt.
Genesis 47:27-31
And they were possessed thereof. - They become owners or tenants of the soil in Goshen. The Israelites were recognized as subjects with the full rights of freemen. “They grew and multiplied exceedingly.” They are now placed in a definite territory, where they are free from the contamination which arises from promiscuous intermarriage with an idolatrous race; and hence, the Lord bestows the blessing of fruitfulness and multiplication, so that in a generation or two more they can intermarry among themselves. It is a remarkable circumstance that until now we read of only two daughters in the family of Jacob. The brothers could not marry their sisters, and it was not desirable that the females should form affinity with the pagan, as they had in general to follow the faith of their husbands. Here the twelfth section of the Pentateuch terminates.
Genesis 47:28-31
Jacob lives seventeen years in Egypt, and so survives the famine twelve years. “He called his son Joseph.” Joseph retained his power and place near Pharaoh after the fourteen years of special service were completed; hence, Jacob looks to him for the accomplishment of his wishes concerning the place of his burial. “Put thy hand under my thigh” Genesis 24:2. He binds Joseph by a solemn asseveration to carry his mortal remains to the land of promise. “And Israel bowed himself on the head of the bed.” On receiving the solemn promise of Joseph, he turns toward the head of the bed, and assumes the posture of adoration, rendering, no doubt, thanks to God for all the mercies of his past life, and for this closing token of filial duty and affection. The Septuagint has the rendering: ἐπί τὸ ἄκρον τῆσῥάβδον αὐτοῦ epi to ākron akron tēs rabdou autou “on the top of his staff,” which is given in the Epistle to the Hebrews Hebrews 11:21. This is obtained by a mere change in the vowel pointing of the last word.
