Quotes about Genesis
And he chose five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh.
- Genesis 47:2
“What is your occupation?” Pharaoh asked Joseph’s brothers. “Your servants are shepherds,” they replied, “both we and our fathers.”
- Genesis 47:3
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Now that your father and brothers have come to you,
- Genesis 47:5
Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and departed from his presence.
- Genesis 47:10
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
There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.
- Genesis 47:13
and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.
- Genesis 47:21
So Joseph established a law that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh, and it is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day. Only the priests’ land does not belong to Pharaoh.
- Genesis 47:26
And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.
- Genesis 47:28
Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed me
- Genesis 48:3
Then Joseph removed his sons from his father’s knees and bowed facedown.
- Genesis 48:12