Genesis 47:19

The Famine In Egypt Continues

¹⁸ When that year was ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent, and the cattle are my lord’s. There is nothing left for my lord except our bodies and our lands. ¹⁹ Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. So give us seed, that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.” ²⁰ So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. Thus the land became Pharaoh’s.

Before Your Eyes

Let Us

Pharaoh

Nehemiah 5:2-3

For there were those who said, “We, our sons and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain that we may eat and live.”

Job 2:4

Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan seeking bread;
They have given their precious things for food
To restore their lives themselves.
“See, O Lord, and look,
For I am despised.”

Lamentations 5:6

We have submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

Lamentations 5:9

We get our bread at the risk of our lives
Because of the sword in the wilderness.

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Philippians 3:8-9

More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ,