Genesis 47 · Verse 12

Genesis 47:12

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.
Genesis 47:12, King James Version

Genesis 47:12 in other translations

BSBJoseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.
WEBJoseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.
ASVAnd Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.
YLTand Joseph nourisheth his father, and his brethren, and all the house of his father with bread, according to the mouth of the infants.
DARBYAnd Joseph maintained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the number of the little ones.
BBEAnd Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of their families.
WebsterAnd Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread according to their families.

What does Genesis 47:12 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 47:7-12

With the gravity of old age, the piety of a true believer, and the authority of a patriarch and a prophet, Jacob besought the Lord to bestow a blessing upon Pharaoh. He acted as a man not ashamed of his religion; and who would express gratitude to the benefactor of himself and his family. We have here a very uncommon answer given to a very common question. Jacob calls his life a pilgrimage; the sojourning of a…

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Genesis 47:12 in the original Hebrew

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וַיְכַלְכֵּ֤לvay.khal.Keland he provided forH3557
יוֹסֵף֙yo.SefJosephH3130
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
אָבִ֣יו'a.Vivfather hisH1
וְאֶת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
אֶחָ֔יו'e.Chavbrothers hisH251
וְאֵ֖תve.'Etand <obj.>H853
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
בֵּ֣יתbeit[the] household ofH1004
אָבִ֑יו'a.Vivfather hisH1
לֶ֖חֶםLe.chemfoodH3899
לְפִ֥יle.Fito [the] mouth ofH6310
הַטָּֽף\׃ha.Tafthe little one[s]H2945

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Genesis 47:12

  • Genesis 45:11

    And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

  • Mark 7:10-13

    For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

  • Exodus 20:12

    Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

  • Genesis 47:1

    Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

  • Ruth 4:15

    And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

  • Matthew 15:4-6

    For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

  • Genesis 47:21

    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 47:24

    And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.

  • 1 Timothy 5:4

    But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:7

    But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

  • 1 Timothy 4:8

    For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

  • 1 Timothy 5:8

    But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
nourished.
Ru 4:15
his father.
Ex 20:12; Mt 15:4-6; Mr 7:10-13; 1Ti 4:8; 5:4,8
according to their families. or, as a little child isnourished. Heb. according to the little ones.
1,21,24; 1Th 2:7

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Context

  • Genesis 47:11

    And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

  • Genesis 47:12

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

  • Genesis 47:13

    And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

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Genesis 47:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y alimentaba José á su padre y á sus hermanos, y á toda la casa de su padre, de pan, hasta la boca del niño.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et Joseph fournit de pain son père et ses frères, et toute la maison de son père, selon le nombre des enfants.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und Joseph versorgte seinen Vater und seine Brüder und das ganze Haus seines Vaters mit Brot, nach der Zahl der Kinder.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et alebat eos, omnemque domum patris sui, præbens cibaria singulis.