Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’
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Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’
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And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
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and take your father and your households, and come unto me; and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
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Passages linked to Genesis 45:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 27:28 God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.
- Genesis 47:6 The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”
- Numbers 18:12 “I have given to you all the best of the oil, all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh.
- Numbers 18:29 Out of all your gifts, you shall offer every wave offering to Yahweh, of all its best parts, even the holy part of it.’
- Psalms 147:14 He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
- Deuteronomy 32:14 butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
- Psalms 81:16 But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”
- Isaiah 28:1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
- Isaiah 28:4 The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain The most plentiful ground.
The most plentiful ground.
The chiefest fruits and commodities.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 45:18 And take your father and your households,…
Gen 45:18 And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
Ver. 18. Come unto me: and I will give your, &c.] So saith Christ, "Come unto me, and ye shall find rest to your souls," {Mat 11:28} health to your bones, all the blessings of this life and a better. Say, you meet with some trouble by the way, as haply Jacob had foul weather ere he came down to Egypt. Non sunt condignae passiones ad praeteritam culpam quae remittitur, ad praesentis consolationes gratium, quae immittitur, ad futuram gloriam, quae promittitur, saith Bernard, sweetly. What is a drop of vinegar put into an ocean of wine? No country hath more venomous creatures than Egypt, none more antidotes. So godliness, saith one, hath many troubles, and as many helps against trouble.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The choicest fruits of the land.
The choicest fruits of the land.
Fat oft is put for the best of my sort, as Num 18:12,29; Deu 32:14; Psa 63:5; 147:14.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And take your father, and your households,.... Or families,…
And take your father, and your households,.... Or families, for they were all married persons, and had children, and no doubt servants also: all were to be brought with them:
and come unto me; into his kingdom, to his metropolis, and to his palace, and into his presence:
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and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt; the best things which it affords, and the best and most fruitful part of it, as he afterwards did, which was the land of Goshen:
and ye shall eat the fat of the land; the choicest fruits of the earth, such as were produced in fields and gardens; meaning that they should have the finest of the wheat for themselves, and the fattest pastures for their flocks.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Marrow; which is an emphatical expression, to signify the…
Marrow; which is an emphatical expression, to signify the best things of Egypt, Chaldean. Hebrew, "the fat, or the cream of the land." (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 18. the good of the land] Cf. Gen_45:20; Gen_45:23;…
18. the good of the land] Cf. Gen_45:20; Gen_45:23; 2Ki_8:9, with the meaning of “the best produce.” The second clause repeats the same thought, in different imagery. Joseph promises the best that Egypt can give. Cf. Num_18:12; Num_18:30; Num_18:32, “best,” Heb. “fat.”
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