Genesis 47:23
"Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land."
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- Proverbs 11:26
"He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 12:11
"He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding."
Read in chapter → - 2 Corinthians 9:10
"Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)"
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 11:6
"In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 45:6
"For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 28:24
"Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 107:36
"And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;"
Read in chapter → - Genesis 41:27
"And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 55:10
"For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:"
Read in chapter → - Psalms 41:1
"Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble."
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