Genesis 47:6

Pharaoh gives Joseph's family the best of the land in Goshen and offers them charge over his livestock. It is a generous provision for Israel.

Cross-references · 18

• Prov 22:29Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.
• Exod 18:21Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
• Gen 47:11Joseph placed his father and his brothers, 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.
• 2 Chr 26:10He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.
• Gen 47:4They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”
• Exod 18:25Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
• Gen 47:16Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”
• Gen 45:18–20Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’
• Gen 20:15Abimelech said, “Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you.”
• Gen 13:9Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
• Gen 34:10You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it.”
• Exod 9:10They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward the sky; and it became a boil breaking out with boils on man and on animal.
• John 17:2even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.
• Exod 9:21Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.
• Exod 9:3–6behold, Yahweh’s hand is on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks with a very grievous pestilence.
• 1 Sam 21:7Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Yahweh; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the best of the herdsmen who belonged to Saul.
• 1 Chr 27:29–31and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite; and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai;
• Prov 21:1The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

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