Talált 1475 Eredmények: Moses and Pharaoh of Egypt
When all the money in Egypt and Canaan was exhausted, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, pleading, 'Give us food, unless you want us to die before your eyes! For our money has come to an end.' (Genesis 47, 15)
If we and our land are not to perish, take us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will become Pharaoh's serfs; only give us seed, so that we can survive and not die and the land not revert to desert!' (Genesis 47, 19)
Thus Joseph acquired all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh, since one by one the Egyptians sold their fields, so hard pressed were they by the famine; and the whole country passed into Pharaoh's possession, (Genesis 47, 20)
while the people he reduced to serfdom from one end of Egypt to the other. (Genesis 47, 21)
The only land he did not acquire belonged to the priests, for the priests received an allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them. Hence they had no need to sell their land. (Genesis 47, 22)
Then Joseph said to the people, 'This is how we stand: I have bought you out, with your land, on Pharaoh's behalf. Here is seed for you to sow the land. (Genesis 47, 23)
But of the harvest you must give a fifth to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you can have for sowing your fields, to provide food for yourselves and your households, and food for your children.' (Genesis 47, 24)
'You have saved our lives!' they replied. 'If it please my lord, we will become serfs to Pharaoh.' (Genesis 47, 25)
So Joseph made a law, still in force today, as regards the soil of Egypt, that one-fifth should go to Pharaoh. Only the land of the priests did not go to Pharaoh. (Genesis 47, 26)
Thus Israel settled in Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there; they were fruitful and grew very numerous. (Genesis 47, 27)
Jacob lived seventeen years in Egypt; thus Jacob's total age came to a hundred and forty-seven years. (Genesis 47, 28)
When Israel's time to die drew near he sent for his son Joseph and said to him, 'If you really love me, place your hand under my thigh as pledge that you will act with faithful love towards me: do not bury me in Egypt! (Genesis 47, 29)