Genesis 47:25 ““You have saved our lives,” they said. “We have found favor in our lor…”

Genesis 47:25

“You have saved our lives,” they said. “We have found favor in our lord’s eyes, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.

World English Bible

They said, “You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

American Standard Version

And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.

Geneva Bible 1599

Then they answered, Thou hast saued our liues: let vs finde grace in the sight of my Lord, and we will be Pharaohs seruants.

Darby Translation

And they said, Thou hast saved us alive. Let us find favour in the eyes of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's bondmen.

Young's Literal Translation

And they say, 'Thou hast revived us; we find grace in the eyes of my lord, and have been servants to Pharaoh;'

Bible in Basic English

And they said to him, Truly you have kept us from death; may we have grace in your eyes, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

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Cross references

“Thou hast”

Genesis 6:19 Genesis 41:45 Genesis 45:6–8 Genesis 50:20 Proverbs 11:26 Proverbs 11:27

Genesis 6:19 · BSB

And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.

Genesis 41:45 · BSB

Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah, and he gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph took charge of all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 45:6–8 · BSB

For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

Genesis 50:20 · BSB

As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.

Proverbs 11:26 · BSB

The people will curse the hoarder of grain, but blessing will crown the one who sells it.

Proverbs 11:27 · BSB

He who searches out good finds favor, but evil will come to him who seeks it.

“let us”

Genesis 33:15 Genesis 18:3 Ruth 2:13

Genesis 33:15 · BSB

“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”

Genesis 18:3 · BSB

“My lord,” said Abraham, “if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by.

Ruth 2:13 · BSB

“My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

24At harvest time, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and food for yourselves and your households and children.”

26So 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.

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