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Genesis 47:12

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And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

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  1. Genesis 47:10

    And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

  2. Genesis 47:11

    And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

  3. Genesis 47:13

    And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

  4. Genesis 47:14

    And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.