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Genesis 47:12

And Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of their families.

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KJV King James Version

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.

WEB World English Bible

Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.

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In context

9 And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

10 And Jacob gave Pharaoh his blessing, and went out from before him.

11 And Joseph made a place for his father and his brothers, and gave them a heritage in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had given orders.

12 And Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of their families.

13 Now there was no food to be had in all the land, so that all Egypt and Canaan were wasted from need of food.

14 And all the money in Egypt and in the land of Canaan which had been given for grain, came into the hands of Joseph: and he put it in Pharaoh's house.

15 And when all the money in Egypt and Canaan was gone, the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread; would you have us come to destruction before your eyes? for we have no more money.

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