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Genesis 47

Genesis 47 ( Genesis • Chapter 47 (31 verses)): 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 . And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them ... Mentions: Joseph , Canaan , Jacob/Israel , Goshen 1 , Egypt , Rameses . It is closely linked with Genesis (Old Testament • 50 Chapters): Genesis (Old Testament, 50 chapters). Key figures: Adam , Cain , Abel , Enoch , Irad , Mehujael . Key places: Eden , Havilah 2 , Gihon 2 , Ethiopia , Assyria , Euphrates . Opens with: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth...."

Scripture Witness (KJV) & Canonical Context

Primary KJV scripture witnesses include Genesis 47:8 : "And Pharaoh said unto Jacob , How old art thou?"; Genesis 47:10 : "And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh."; Genesis 47:2 : "And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.". Related canonical books and chapters: Genesis 47 ( Genesis • Chapter 47 (31 verses)), Genesis (Old Testament • 50 Chapters), Ezekiel 47 ( Ezekiel • Chapter 47 (23 verses)).

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Topics, People & Places (36)

Genesis 47
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Genesis • Chapter 47 (31 verses)

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 . And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them ... Mentions: Joseph , Canaan , Jacob/Israel , Goshen 1 , Egypt , Rameses .

Genesis
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Old Testament • 50 Chapters

Genesis (Old Testament, 50 chapters). Key figures: Adam , Cain , Abel , Enoch , Irad , Mehujael . Key places: Eden , Havilah 2 , Gihon 2 , Ethiopia , Assyria , Euphrates . Opens with: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth...."

Michelangelo — The Creation of Adam (Sistine Chapel)
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Iconic high Renaissance fresco painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel illustrating God breathing life into Adam ( Genesis 2:7 ).

Michelangelo Buonarroti • Sistine Chapel, Vatican Museums / Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0
Gustave Doré — The Deluge (The Great Flood)
IMAGE • artwork

Dramatic engraving portraying desperate families and a mother shielding her child on a rock as floodwaters engulf the earth ( Genesis 7 ).

Gustave Doré • La Grande Bible de Tours / Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0
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AUDIO • scripture

Historic audio transmission from Apollo 8 astronauts William Anders, Jim Lovell, and Frank Borman reading Genesis 1 from lunar orbit on Christmas Eve 1968.

NASA Astronauts William Anders, Jim Lovell, Frank Borman • NASA / National Archives Public Domain
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AUDIO • scripture

Traditional Tiberian cantillation (te'amim) chanting of the Masoretic Text of Genesis 13 -14 in Biblical Hebrew.

AdoniTzedek / Wikimedia Commons • Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0
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AUDIO • scripture

Traditional liturgical cantillation of Genesis 14:18-24 recounting Melchizedek king of Salem blessing Abram with bread and wine.

AdoniTzedek / Wikimedia Commons • Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0
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AUDIO • scripture

Cantillation chanting of Genesis 15 recording God's unilateral covenant with Abram and the promise of heirs like the stars.

AdoniTzedek / Wikimedia Commons • Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0
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VIDEO • overview

Overview of Genesis 1 –11 exploring creation, the human rebellion in Eden , the spread of sin through Cain and the Flood , and God's scattering of humanity at Babylon .

BibleProject • BibleProject CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 / Standard YouTube License
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VIDEO • overview

Overview of Genesis 12 –50 following God's covenant with Abraham , the trials of Isaac and Jacob , and Joseph 's descent into Egypt showing God working good through human failure.

BibleProject • BibleProject CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 / Standard YouTube License
γένεσις
genesis (génesis) [ghen'-es-is]
G1078 Greek noun feminine 5x
origin, lineage, birth

Primary meaning: origin, lineage, birth. Strong's: nativity; figuratively, nature. Lexical nuances: origin, lineage : βίβλος γενέσεως (as in Ge 2:4 a 5:1 ), Mt 1:1 . birth : Mt 1:18 , Lk 1:14 (Rec. γέννησις ); πρόσωπον τῆς γ. , face of his birth ("what God made him to be," Hort., in l.), Ja 1:23 ; ὁ τροχὸς τῆς γ. , the wheel (course) of birth or creation ("the wheel of man's nature according to its original Divine purpose," Hort), Ja 3:6 .†

Derivation: from the same as G1074 (γενεά);
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VIDEO • theme

Trace the thread of the Promised Messiah from the seed of the woman in Genesis 3 and the Davidic King to the surprise of the suffering Servant King dying to defeat death.

BibleProject • BibleProject CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 / Standard YouTube License
עֶלְיוֹן
Elyon (ʿElyôn) [el-YONE]
H5945 Hebrew adjective / divine title 53x
Most High, Supreme

The Most High, Sovereign Lord over cosmic powers, nations, and earthly rulers; first revealed through Melchizedek (Genesis 14:18) as Possessor of heaven and earth.

Derivation: From עָלָה (H5927) to ascend, go up.
Ezekiel 47
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Ezekiel • Chapter 47 (23 verses)

Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side o... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Joseph , Tamar , Hethlon , Zedad , Hamath , Berothah , Sibraim .

Genesis 1
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Genesis • Chapter 1 (31 verses)

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Genesis 2
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Genesis • Chapter 2 (25 verses)

Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had... Mentions: Adam , Eden , Havilah 2 , Gihon 2 , Ethiopia , Assyria .

Genesis 3
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Genesis • Chapter 3 (24 verses)

Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of t... Mentions: Adam , Eden .

Genesis 4
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Genesis • Chapter 4 (26 verses)

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain , and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. And she again bare his brother Abel . And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fr... Mentions: Adam , Cain, Abel, Enoch , Irad , Nod , Eden , Tubal .

Genesis 5
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Genesis • Chapter 5 (32 verses)

This is the book of the generations of Adam . In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam , in the day when they were created. And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and bega... Mentions: Adam, Seth , Jared , Enoch , Methuselah , Ham 2 .

Genesis 6
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Genesis • Chapter 6 (22 verses)

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive w... Mentions: Noah , Shem , Ham , Japheth , Ham 2 .

Genesis 7
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Genesis • Chapter 7 (24 verses)

And the Lord said unto Noah , Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. O... Mentions: Noah , Shem , Ham , Japheth , Ham 2 .

Genesis 8
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Genesis • Chapter 8 (22 verses)

And God remembered Noah , and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged; The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained; A... Mentions: Noah , Ararat .

Genesis 9
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Genesis • Chapter 9 (29 verses)

And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes... Mentions: Noah , Shem , Ham , Japheth , Canaan , Ham 2 .

Genesis 10
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Genesis • Chapter 10 (32 verses)

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah , Shem , Ham , and Japheth : and unto them were sons born after the flood. The sons of Japheth ; Gomer , and Magog , and Madai, and Javan , and Tubal , and Meshech , and Tiras. And the sons of Gomer ; Ashkenaz , and Riphath, and Togarmah. Mentions: Noah , Shem , Ham , Japheth, Cush , Ham 2 , Gomer, Magog , Javan , Tubal .

Genesis 11
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Genesis • Chapter 11 (32 verses)

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had br... Mentions: Shem , Arpachshad (or Arphaxad ), Eber (or Heber ), Peleg , Reu , Shinar , Babel , Terah , Haran , Canaan .

Genesis 12
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Genesis • Chapter 12 (20 verses)

Now the Lord had said unto Abram , Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bl... Mentions: Abram/Abraham , Lot , Haran , Canaan , Shechem , Moreh 1 , Egypt .

Genesis 13
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Genesis • Chapter 13 (18 verses)

And Abram went up out of Egypt , he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth–el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning,... Mentions: Abram/Abraham, Lot , Canaan , Hebron , Egypt , Jordan , Sodom , Gomorrah , Zoar .

Genesis 14
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Genesis • Chapter 14 (24 verses)

And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar , Arioch king of Ellasar , Chedorlaomer king of Elam , and Tidal king of nations; That these made war with Bera king of Sodom , and with Birsha king of Gomorrah , Shinab king of Admah , and Shemeber king of Zeboiim , and the kin... Mentions: Elam , Bela , Ham , Amalekites , Lot , Shinar , Ellasar , Sodom , Gomorrah .

Genesis 15
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Genesis • Chapter 15 (21 verses)

After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram : I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus ? And Abr... Mentions: Abram/Abraham, Eliezer , Damascus , Egypt , Euphrates .

Genesis 16
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Genesis • Chapter 16 (16 verses)

Now Sarai Abram 's wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. And Sarai said unto Abram , Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearke... Mentions: Abram/Abraham, Canaan , Ishmael , Shur , Kadesh 1 , Bered .

Genesis 17
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Genesis • Chapter 17 (27 verses)

And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram , and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. And Abram fell on his face: and God talked... Mentions: Abram/Abraham, Canaan , Ishmael , Isaac .

Leningrad Codex (B19a) — Genesis 1:1–2:3
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The oldest complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible (dated 1008 CE), with full Tiberian Masorah.

Qumran Essene Scribes / Early Christian Copyists • Shrine of the Book / Israel Antiquities Authority Public Domain Mark 1.0
Genesis 18
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Genesis • Chapter 18 (33 verses)

And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre : and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, And s... Mentions: Abram/Abraham , Mamre , Sodom , Gomorrah .

Gustave Doré — The Creation of Light (1866)
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Magnificent wood engraving from Dor é's illustrated Bible depicting God commanding 'Let there be light' ( Genesis 1:3 ) piercing primeval darkness.

Gustave Doré • La Grande Bible de Tours / Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0
Leonardo da Vinci — Annunciation (1472, Uffizi Gallery)
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The angel Gabriel kneeling in an Italian garden announcing to the Virgin Mary the conception of the Messiah.

Leonardo da Vinci • Santa Maria delle Grazie / Uffizi Public Domain Mark 1.0

Scripture Passages (24)

Genesis 47:8 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

And Pharaoh said unto Jacob , How old art thou?

Genesis 47:10 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

Genesis 47:2 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

Genesis 47:5 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph , saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:

Genesis 47:7 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

Genesis 47:16 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.

Genesis 47:12 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

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

Genesis 47:31 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed's head.

Genesis 47:27 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt , in the country of Goshen ; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

Genesis 47:28 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.

Genesis 47:21 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

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 47:3 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.

Genesis 47:25 (KJV)
Genesis 47 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.

Genesis 47:20 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.

Genesis 47:23 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

Genesis 47:30 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt , and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

Genesis 47:11 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

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 47:13 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

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.

Genesis 47:26 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.

Genesis 47:22 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands.

And Laban called it Jegar–sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed .

Genesis 47:14 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt , and in the land of Canaan , for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

Genesis 47:15 (KJV)
Genesis 47 KJV

And when money failed in the land of Egypt , and in the land of Canaan , all the Egyptians came unto Joseph , and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.

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