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Genesis 47:18

Money and wealth

16 “Then bring me your livestock,” said Joseph. “Since the money is gone, I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock.”

17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their flocks and herds, and their donkeys. Throughout that year he provided them with food in exchange for all their livestock.

When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

19 Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”

20 So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,

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BSB
When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
KJV
When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
WEB
When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.
ASV
And when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord`s; there is nought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
DARBY
And that year ended; and they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide [it] from my lord that since [our] money is come to an end, and the herds of cattle are in the possession of my lord, nothing is left before my lord but our bodies and our land.
BLB
And that year ended, and they came to him in the second year and said to him, “we will not hide from my lord that the silver is gone and the livestock of the animals belong to my lord. Nothing remains before my lord, except our bodies and our land.
ÅB
Så gikk det år til ende, og året etter kom de til ham og sa: Vi vil ikke dølge for min herre at det er forbi med pengene, og buskapen som vi eide, har min herre fått; det er intet tilbake for min herre uten vårt legeme og vår jord.
OTB
Da det året var omme, kom de tilbake året etter og sa: “Vi kan ikke skjule for vår herre at våre penger er borte og vår buskap tilhører deg. Det er ingenting igjen for vår herre bortsett fra våre kropper og vår jord.
B1930
Så gikk det år til ende, og året efter kom de til ham og sa: Vi vil ikke dølge for min herre at det er forbi med pengene, og buskapen som vi eide, har min herre fått; det er intet tilbake for min herre uten vårt legeme og vår jord.

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Cross references

  • Jeremiah 38:9

    “My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”

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  • 2 Kings 6:26

    As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”

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