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There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."`
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Piety at Home
Commentators see Joseph's promise to nourish his father as a prime biblical example of a child's duty to provide for their parents. Matthew Henry calls this "showing piety at home," referencing 1 Timothy 5:4. Joseph's provision was a practical and necessary act of love to save his entire family from the poverty threatened by five more years of famine.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
19th Century
Anglican
Your household. —As the famine had lasted only two years, and as Jacob had preserved his flocks and herds, so probably he had lost…
Baptist
And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And there will I nourish thee Provide for him and his family:
for yet [there are] five years of f…
Joseph let Judah continue and heard all he had to say. He found his brothers humbled for their sins, mindful of him (for Judah had mentioned him tw…
