16 Then Joseph said, “Give up your livestock, and I will give you food for your livestock, since your money is [a]gone.” 17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them [b]food in exchange for the horses and the [c]flocks and the herds and the donkeys; and he [d]fed them with [e]food in exchange for all their livestock [f]that year. 18 But when that year ended, they came to him the [g]next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord the fact that our money is all spent, and the [h]livestock are my lord’s. There is nothing left [i]for my lord except our bodies and our lands.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 47:16 Lit at an end
  2. Genesis 47:17 Or bread
  3. Genesis 47:17 Lit livestock of the flocks and livestock of the herds
  4. Genesis 47:17 Lit led them as a shepherd
  5. Genesis 47:17 Or bread
  6. Genesis 47:17 Lit in that year
  7. Genesis 47:18 Lit second
  8. Genesis 47:18 Lit livestock of the cattle
  9. Genesis 47:18 Lit in the presence of

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