Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their children. New Living Translation And Joseph provided food for his father and his brothers in amounts appropriate to the number of their dependents, including the smallest children. English Standard Version And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their dependents. Berean Standard Bible Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families. King James Bible And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. New King James Version Then Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with bread, according to the number in their families. New American Standard Bible Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their little ones. NASB 1995 Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to their little ones. NASB 1977 And Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to their little ones. Legacy Standard Bible And Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to their little ones. Amplified Bible Joseph provided and supplied his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to [the needs of] their children. Christian Standard Bible And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s family with food for their dependents. Holman Christian Standard Bible And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food for their dependents. American Standard Version And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. Contemporary English Version Joseph also provided food for their families. English Revised Version And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. GOD'S WORD® Translation Joseph also provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's family with food based on the number of children they had. Good News Translation Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all the rest of his father's family, including the very youngest. International Standard Version Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, proportionate to the number of young children. Majority Standard Bible Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father?s household with food for their families. NET Bible Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father's household, according to the number of their little children. New Heart English Bible And Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all of his father?s household, according to the number of their dependents. Webster's Bible Translation And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread according to their families. World English Bible Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionand Joseph nourishes his father, and his brothers, and all the house of his father [with] bread, according to the mouth of the infants. Young's Literal Translation and Joseph nourisheth his father, and his brethren, and all the house of his father with bread, according to the mouth of the infants. Smith's Literal Translation And Joseph will nourish his father and his brethren, and all the house of his father, with bread according to the mouth of the little ones. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd he nourished them, and all his father's house, allowing food to every one. Catholic Public Domain Version And he fed them, along with all his father’s house, providing portions of food to each one. New American Bible And Joseph provided food for his father and brothers and his father’s whole household, down to the youngest. New Revised Standard Version And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their dependents. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd Joseph supplied his father and his brothers and all his father's household with wheat according to their families. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And Yoseph sustained his father and his brothers and all the house of his father with grain, according to family. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And Joseph sustained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the want of their little ones. Brenton Septuagint Translation And Joseph gave provision to his father, and his brethren, and to all the house of his father, corn for each person. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Jacob Settles in Goshen…11So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families. Cross References Genesis 45:11 And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.’ Genesis 50:21 Therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones.” So Joseph reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them. Exodus 16:35 The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan. Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. Psalm 37:25 I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread. Psalm 105:16-17 He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food. / He sent a man before them—Joseph, sold as a slave. Psalm 111:5 He provides food for those who fear Him; He remembers His covenant forever. Proverbs 10:3 The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked. Isaiah 33:16 he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured. Isaiah 58:7 Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Matthew 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread. Matthew 6:25-26 Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? / Look at the birds of the air: They do not sow or reap or gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Matthew 25:35-40 For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in, / I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’ / Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You something to drink? ... Luke 12:24 Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storehouse or barn; yet God feeds them. How much more valuable you are than the birds! John 6:32-35 Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. / For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” / “Sir,” they said, “give us this bread at all times.” ... Treasury of Scripture And Joseph nourished his father, and his brothers, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. nourished. Ruth 4:15 And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him. his father. Exodus 20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Matthew 15:4-6 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death… Mark 7:10-13 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: … according to their families. Genesis 47:1,21,24 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen… 1 Thessalonians 2:7 But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: Jump to Previous Bread Care Children Families Father's Food House Household Infants Joseph Little Maintained Mouth Needs Nourished Nourisheth Ones Provided Sustained WantJump to Next Bread Care Children Families Father's Food House Household Infants Joseph Little Maintained Mouth Needs Nourished Nourisheth Ones Provided Sustained WantGenesis 47 1. Joseph presents his father, and five of his brothers before Pharaoh.11. He gives them habitation and maintenance. 13. He gets the Egyptian's money; 16. their cattle; 18. and their lands, except the priests', to Pharaoh. 23. He restores the land for a fifth. 28. Jacob's age. 29. He swears Joseph to bury him with his fathers. Joseph also provided The Hebrew root for "provided" is "כּוּל" (kul), which means to sustain or nourish. This word choice emphasizes Joseph's role as a provider and sustainer for his family, reflecting God's provision for His people. Joseph, as a type of Christ, mirrors the divine care and provision that God extends to His children. Historically, Joseph's position in Egypt allowed him to act as a savior for his family during a time of famine, symbolizing God's sovereignty and His ability to use individuals to fulfill His purposes. his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food according to the number of their children Verse 12. - And Joseph nourished - ἐσιτομέτρει (LXX.), i.e. gave them their measure of corn - his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families - literally, to, or according to, the mouth of the little ones, meaning either in proportion to the size of their families (LXX., Keil, Kalisch, Murphy), or with all the tenderness with which a parent provides for his offspring (Murphy), or the whole body of them, from the greatest even to the least (Calvin), or completely, down even to the food for their children ('Speaker's Commentary'). |