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Genesis 47:18

in Genesis 47

When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord’s; there is nought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:

KJV

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:

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This verse in Genesis 47

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

When that year was ended - The sixth year of the famine, they came unto him the second year, which was the last or seventh year of the famine, in which it was necessary to sow the land that there might be a crop the succeeding year; for Joseph, on whose prediction they relied, had foretold that the famine should continue only seven years, and consequently they expected the eighth year to be a fruitful year provided the land was sowed, without which, though the inundation of the land by the Nile might amount to the sixteen requisite cubits, there could be no crop.

This site's exposition

Then bring me your livestock

on Genesis 47:16-19

Joseph takes the money first, then the livestock, then the land and the people themselves. Adam Clarke read the second stage as a mercy to both, the herds fed and the people fed with them. The last stage comes from the Egyptians themselves, who say purchase us and our land. Each stage is asked for by the people who pay it.

This site's exposition

they came to him the second year

The second year here is the year after the livestock was sold, the next year of the famine. The Egyptians speak plainly, with nothing left to bargain with. Bodies and land are all a farmer has.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

When the year was ended, they came unto him the second year,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

If its usual favours are suspended but for a while, we die, we perish, we all perish. All our wealth would not keep us from starving if the rain of heaven were but withheld for two or three years. See how much we lie at God's mercy, and let us keep ourselves always in his love.

The words behind it

28 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַתִּתֹּם֮and it was finished

    vatitomH8552 →63 times

  • הַשָּׁנָ֣הthe year

    hashanahH8141 →877 times

  • הַהִוא֒<the> that

    hahiv'H1931 →1879 times

  • וַיָּבֹ֨אוּand they came

    vaiyavouH935 →2568 times

  • אֵלָ֜יוto him

    ʾelavH413 →5510 times

  • בַּשָּׁנָ֣הin the year

    bashanahH8141 →877 times

  • הַשֵּׁנִ֗ית<the> second

    hashenitH8145 →156 times

  • וַיֹּ֤אמְרוּand they said

    vaiyomeruH559 →5305 times

  • לוֹ֙to him

    lo

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • נְכַחֵ֣דwe will hide

    nekhachedH3582 →

  • מֵֽאֲדֹנִ֔יfrom lord my

    meadoniH113 →333 times

  • כִּ֚יthat

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • אִם־except

    ʾim-H518 →1069 times

  • תַּ֣םit has been finished

    tamH8552 →63 times

  • הַכֶּ֔סֶףthe money

    hakesefH3701 →403 times

  • וּמִקְנֵ֥הand [the] livestock of

    umiknehH4735 →76 times

  • הַבְּהֵמָ֖הthe cattle

    habehemahH929 →190 times

  • אֶל־[is] to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אֲדֹנִ֑יlord my

    ʾadoniH113 →333 times

  • לֹ֤אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • נִשְׁאַר֙it is left

    nisharH7604 →133 times

  • לִפְנֵ֣י<to> before

    lifneiH6440 →2123 times

  • אֲדֹנִ֔יlord my

    ʾadoniH113 →333 times

  • בִּלְתִּ֥יexcept

    biltiH1115 →112 times

  • אִם־<if>

    ʾim-H518 →1069 times

  • גְּוִיָּתֵ֖נוּbody our

    geviyatenuH1472 →

  • וְאַדְמָתֵֽנוּ׃and land our

    veadmatenuH127 →225 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 38:9

    “My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 37:21

      So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in…

    • Esther 7:4–6

      For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would…

    • Jeremiah 52:6

      By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.

    • Job 31:34

      because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—

  • Through

    2 Kings 6:26

    As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 14:4

      When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”

    • Isaiah 10:3

      What will you do on the day of reckoning when devastation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?

    • Acts 21:28

      crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and…

    • Luke 18:3

      And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’

About Genesis

The Garden of Eden, Thomas Cole, 1828, Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Public domain.
The Garden of Eden, Thomas Cole, 1828, Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Public domain.
Genesis: the study guide →Read Genesis 47 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Calvin, Commentary on Genesis; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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