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Genesis 45:18 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’ "

Genesis 45:18

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16 The report of it was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, “Joseph’s brothers have come.” It pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

18 Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.’

19 Now you are commanded to do this: Take wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and come.

20 Also, don’t concern yourselves about your belongings, for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.”

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Genesis 47:6

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"The land of Egypt is before you. Make your father and your brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. If you know any able men among them, then put them in charge of my livestock.”"

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Genesis 46:31

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"Joseph said to his brothers, and to his father’s house, “I will go up, and speak with Pharaoh, and will tell him, ‘My brothers, and my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me."

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1 Samuel 12:8

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"“When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them to dwell in this place."

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Exodus 10:6

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"Your houses shall be filled, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’” He turned, and went out from Pharaoh."

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Exodus 3:16

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"Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt."

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Acts 7:3

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"and said to him, ‘Get out of your land and away from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’"

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Genesis 45:1

"Then Joseph couldn’t control himself before all those who stood before him, and he called out, “Cause everyone to go out from me!” No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers."

Genesis 45:2

"He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard."

Genesis 45:3

"Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Does my father still live?” His brothers couldn’t answer him; for they were terrified at his presence."

Genesis 45:4

"Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” They came near. He said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt."

Genesis 45:5

"Now don’t be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life."

Genesis 45:6

"For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest."

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