Quotes about Joseph
Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and inform Pharaoh: ‘My brothers and my father’s household from the land of Canaan have come to me.
— Genesis 46:31
So Joseph went and told Pharaoh: “My father and my brothers, with their flocks and herds and all they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.”
— Genesis 47:1
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Now that your father and brothers have come to you,
— Genesis 47:5
Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
— Genesis 47:7
So 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.
— Genesis 47:11
Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.
— Genesis 47:12
Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh’s palace.
— Genesis 47:14
When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? For our funds have run out!”
— Genesis 47:15
“Then bring me your livestock,” said Joseph. “Since the money is gone, I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock.”
— Genesis 47:16
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.
— Genesis 47:17
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,
— Genesis 47:20
and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.
— Genesis 47:21