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Genesis 47:19 · World English Bible

Genesis 47:19 Meaning Why Should We Die Before Your Eyes

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 servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won’t be desolate.

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