Genesis 47:19 (WEB)
Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”
Fathers and councils · 1
“First of all, then, he gathered up their money, then their implements, last of all he acquired for the king all their rights to the ground.” — editor's note: Gen. xlvii. 14–20.
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