Study it in the app“Why 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 slaves to Pharaoh; and give us seed, so that we may live and not die, and the land will not become desolate.””
Whyלָמָּהshould we dieנָמוּתbefore your eyes,לְעֵינֶיךָbothגַּםweאֲנַחְנוּandגַּםour land?אַדְמָתֵנוּBuyקְנֵהusאֹתָנוּand our landוְאֶת אַדְמָתֵנוּfor bread,בַּלָּחֶםand weוְ אֲנַחְנוּand our landוְאַדְמָתֵנוּwill beנִהְיֶהslavesעֲבָדִיםto Pharaoh;לְפַרְעֹהand give usוְתֶןseed,זֶרַעso that we may liveוְנִחְיֶהand notוְלֹאdie,נָמוּתand the landוְהָאֲדָמָהwill notלֹאbecome desolate.”תֵשָׁם
die
To cease living; also, one who has ceased living.
Where else “namut” appearseye
The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.
Where else “ene” appearssoil
Farmland, or dust.
Where else “admate” appearsbuy
To give silver in order to become the owner of something.
Where else “kene” appearsbread
Food made of kneaded, baked flour: the basis of each day's meal.
Where else “lachem” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “nihye” appearsslave
A person who belongs to a master and works for him, without freedom of his own.
Where else “avadim” appearsPharaoh
Pharaoh: the title of the kings of Egypt, not a personal name.
Where else “faro” appearsgive
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “ten” appearsseed
What is sown to sprout: grains and seeds of plants.
Where else “zera” appearslive
To have breath and remain in this world, not die.
Where else “nichye” appearsbe desolate
Lie desolate, be left uncultivated.
Where else “tesham” appears18That year ended, and they came to him the second year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that the silver is spent and the herds of animals belong to my lord; nothing is left before my lord except our bodies and our land.
19 · This verse (above)
20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for the Egyptians sold each man his field, because the famine was strong upon them; and the land became Pharaoh’s.
1. What it says
What did Joseph do for his family and for Egypt during the famine (vv. 11-12, 14-26)?
2. What it means
How does Jacob describe his years to Pharaoh, and what does he do when he arrives and when he leaves (vv. 7-10)?
3. How I live it
How can you help someone in need with what you have?
