And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.(Genesis 47:16)

And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.(Genesis 47:17)

When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:(Genesis 47:18)

Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.(Genesis 47:20)

And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.(Genesis 47:21)

Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.(Genesis 47:22)

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Genesis 47:19 - Cross Reference

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? (Matthew 16:26)

We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. (Lamentations 5:9)

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. (Lamentations 5:6)

And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life. (Job 2:4)

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, (Philippians 3:8)

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile. (Lamentations 1:11)

For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live. (Nehemiah 5:2)