Graphic Bible · Scene 19 of 30

A farmer and his household ask for food and seed while offering their land and service.
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Genesis 47:19

Buy Us and Our Land

Goshen, Famine, and a Father’s Oath · Genesis 47

Story guide: The people ask for bread and seed, offering themselves and their land to Pharaoh.

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19Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give seed, so that we may live and not die, and the land may not become desolate.

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