Genesis 47:12
New International Version
Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their children.

New Living Translation
And Joseph provided food for his father and his brothers in amounts appropriate to the number of their dependents, including the smallest children.

English Standard Version
And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their dependents.

Berean Standard Bible
Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.

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

New King James Version
Then Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with bread, according to the number in their families.

New American Standard Bible
Joseph also provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their little ones.

NASB 1995
Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to their little ones.

NASB 1977
And Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to their little ones.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Joseph provided his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to their little ones.

Amplified Bible
Joseph provided and supplied his father and his brothers and all his father’s household with food, according to [the needs of] their children.

Christian Standard Bible
And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s family with food for their dependents.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food for their dependents.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Yoseph sustained his father and his brothers and all the house of his father with grain, according to family.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Joseph gave provision to his father, and his brethren, and to all the house of his father, corn for each person.

Contemporary English Version
Joseph also provided food for their families.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he nourished them, and all his father's house, allowing food to every one.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Joseph also provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's family with food based on the number of children they had.

Good News Translation
Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all the rest of his father's family, including the very youngest.

International Standard Version
Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, proportionate to the number of young children.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Joseph sustained his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to the want of their little ones.

Literal Standard Version
and Joseph nourishes his father, and his brothers, and all the house of his father [with] bread, according to the mouth of the infants.

Majority Standard Bible
Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.

New American Bible
And Joseph provided food for his father and brothers and his father’s whole household, down to the youngest.

NET Bible
Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father's household, according to the number of their little children.

New Revised Standard Version
And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their dependents.

New Heart English Bible
And Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all of his father�s household, according to the number of their dependents.

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

World English Bible
Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.

Young's Literal Translation
and Joseph nourisheth his father, and his brethren, and all the house of his father with bread, according to the mouth of the infants.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Jacob Settles in Goshen
11So Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the district of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12Joseph also provided his father and brothers and all his father’s household with food for their families.

Cross References
Genesis 45:11
And there I will provide for you, because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you and your household and everything you own will come to destitution.'

Genesis 50:21
Therefore do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones." So Joseph reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them.


Treasury of Scripture

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

nourished.

Ruth 4:15
And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

his father.

Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Matthew 15:4-6
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death…

Mark 7:10-13
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: …

according to their families.

Genesis 47:1,21,24
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…

1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:

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Genesis 47
1. Joseph presents his father, and five of his brothers before Pharaoh.
11. He gives them habitation and maintenance.
13. He gets the Egyptian's money;
16. their cattle;
18. and their lands, except the priests', to Pharaoh.
23. He restores the land for a fifth.
28. Jacob's age.
29. He swears Joseph to bury him with his fathers.














(12) According to their families.--Heb., according to the "taf" This, as we have seen above, means "according to the clan or body of dependants possessed by each one." Dan, with his one child, would have been starved to death if the allowance for himself and his household had depended upon the number of his "little ones," which is the usual translation of this word in the Authorised Version. (See margin.)

Verse 12. - And Joseph nourished - ἐσιτομέτρει (LXX.), i.e. gave them their measure of corn - his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families - literally, to, or according to, the mouth of the little ones, meaning either in proportion to the size of their families (LXX., Keil, Kalisch, Murphy), or with all the tenderness with which a parent provides for his offspring (Murphy), or the whole body of them, from the greatest even to the least (Calvin), or completely, down even to the food for their children ('Speaker's Commentary').

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Joseph also
יוֹסֵף֙ (yō·w·sêp̄)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3130: Joseph -- 'he increases', a son of Jacob, also the name of several Israelites

provided
וַיְכַלְכֵּ֤ל (way·ḵal·kêl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3557: To keep in, to measure, to maintain

his father
אָבִ֣יו (’ā·ḇîw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

and
וְאֶת־ (wə·’eṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

brothers
אֶחָ֔יו (’e·ḥāw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 251: A brother, )

and all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

his father’s
אָבִ֑יו (’ā·ḇîw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1: Father

household
בֵּ֣ית (bêṯ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

with food
לֶ֖חֶם (le·ḥem)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain

for
לְפִ֥י (lə·p̄î)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to

[their] families.
הַטָּֽף׃ (haṭ·ṭāp̄)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2945: A family


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