19Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
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And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live. …
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-26)Care being taken of Jacob and his family, the preservation of which was especially designed by Providence in Joseph’s advancement, an account is now given of the saving of the kingdom of Egypt too from ruin; for God is King of nations as well as King of saints, and provideth food for all flesh. Joseph now returns to the management of that great trust which Pharaoh had lodged in his hand. It would…
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