Genesis 47:15 Cross References - DouayRheims

¹⁵ And when the buyers wanted money, all Egypt came to Joseph, saying: Give us bread: why should we die in thy presence, having now no money?

¹⁸ And they came the second year, and said to him: We will not hide from our lord, how that our money is spent, and our cattle also are gone: neither art thou ignorant that we have nothing now left but our bodies and our lands. ¹⁹ Why therefore shall we die before thy eyes? we will be thine, both we and our lands: buy us to be the king's servants, and give us seed, lest for want of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness.

²⁴ That you may have corn. The fifth part you shall give to the king; the other four you shall have for seed, and for food for your families and children.

⁵ And he said to the men of Soccoth: Give, I beseech you, bread to the people that is with me, for they are faint: that we may pursue Zebee, and Salmana, the kings of Madian.

⁸ And going up from thence, he came to Phanuel: and he spoke the like things to the men of that place. And they also answered him, as the men of Soccoth had answered.

³ Now therefore if thou have any thing at hand, though it were but five loaves, give me, or whatsoever thou canst find.

⁸ Ask thy servants, and they will tell thee. Now therefore let thy servants find favour in thy eyes: for we are come in a good day, whatsoever thy hand shall find give to thy servants, and to thy son David.

³ Trust in the Lord, and do good, and dwell in the land, and thou shalt be fed with its riches.

¹⁶ He shall dwell on high, the fortifications of rocks shall be his highness: bread is given him, his waters are sure.

¹¹ Give us this day our supersubstantial bread.