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Genesis 47:25

“You have saved our lives,” they said. “We have found favor in our lord’s eyes, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

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ASV

And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.

KJV

And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.

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9 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיֹּאמְר֖וּvai.yo.me.Ruand they saidH559 →
הֶחֱיִתָ֑נוּhe.che.yi.Ta.nuyou have preserved alive usH2421 →
נִמְצָא־nim.tza'-may we findH4672 →
חֵן֙chenfavorH2580 →
בְּעֵינֵ֣יbe.'ei.Neiin [the] eyes ofH5869 →
אֲדֹנִ֔י'a.do.Nilord myH113 →
וְהָיִ֥ינוּve.ha.Yi.nuand we will beH1961 →
עֲבָדִ֖ים'a.va.DimslavesH5650 →
לְפַרְעֹֽה׃le.far.'Ohof PharaohH6547 →

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Genesis 30:27But Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”Genesis 45:5And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.Genesis 33:15“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”Genesis 32:5I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”Genesis 18:3“My lord,” said Abraham, “if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by.Genesis 6:19And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.Genesis 50:20As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good, in order to accomplish a day like this—to preserve the lives of many people.Ruth 2:13“My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”Genesis 41:45Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-paneah, and he gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph took charge of all the land of Egypt.Proverbs 11:26–27The people will curse the hoarder of grain, but blessing will crown the one who sells it.Genesis 45:6–8For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.Genesis 47:24At harvest time, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and food for yourselves and your households and children.”

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