Genesis 47:25

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.

And they said {H559}, Thou hast saved our lives {H2421}: let us find {H4672} grace {H2580} in the sight {H5869} of my lord {H113}, and we will be Pharaoh's {H6547} servants {H5650}.

They replied, "You have saved our lives! So if it pleases my lord, we will be Pharaoh's slaves."

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

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.

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Cross-References

  • Genesis 33:15 (3 votes)

    And Esau said, Let me now leave with thee [some] of the folk that [are] with me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.

  • Genesis 41:45 (2 votes)

    And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over [all] the land of Egypt.

  • Genesis 45:6 (2 votes)

    For these two years [hath] the famine [been] in the land: and yet [there are] five years, in the which [there shall] neither [be] earing nor harvest.

  • Genesis 45:8 (2 votes)

    So now [it was] not you [that] sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

  • Ruth 2:13 (2 votes)

    Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens.

  • Proverbs 11:26 (2 votes)

    ¶ He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing [shall be] upon the head of him that selleth [it].

  • Proverbs 11:27 (2 votes)

    ¶ He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.