Genesis 47:19

WEB

¹⁹Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.”

KJV

¹⁹Wherefore 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.

BSB

¹⁹Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”

FBV

¹⁹Do you want us to die right in front of you? So buy us and our land in return for food. Then our land will belong to Pharaoh, and we'll be his slaves. Just give us grain so we can live and won't die, and so the land won't be abandoned.”

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Extra References

Nehemiah 5:2-3

²For there were some who said, “We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain, that we may eat and live.” ³There were also some who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses. Let us get grain, because of the famine.”

Job 2:4

⁴Satan answered the LORD, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Lamentations 5:9

⁹We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

Lamentations 5:6

⁶We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Lamentations 1:11

¹¹All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul. “Look, LORD, and see, for I have become despised.”

Philippians 3:8-9

⁸Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be a loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ ⁹and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

Matthew 16:26

²⁶For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?