Genesis 45:18
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New International Version (©2011)
and bring your father and your families back to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt and you can enjoy the fat of the land.'

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then get your father and all of your families, and return here to me. I will give you the very best land in Egypt, and you will eat from the best that the land produces.'"

English Standard Version (©2001)
and take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and take your father and your households and come to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt and you will eat the fat of the land.'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Get your father and your families, and come back to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you can eat from the richness of the land.'

International Standard Version (©2012)
get your father and your households, and come back to me. I'll give you the best of the land of Egypt and you can live off the abundance of the land.'

NET Bible (©2006)
Get your father and your households and come to me! Then I will give you the best land in Egypt and you will eat the best of the land.'

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Take your father and your families, and come to me. I will give you the best land in Egypt. Then you can enjoy the best food in the land.'

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.

American King James Version
And take your father and your households, and come to me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land.

American Standard Version
and take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And bring away from thence your father and kindred, and come to me: and I will give you all the good things of Egypt, that you may eat the marrow of the land.

Darby Bible Translation
and take your father and your households, and come to me; and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

English Revised Version
and take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

Webster's Bible Translation
And take your father, and your households, and come to me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

World English Bible
Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'

Young's Literal Translation
and take your father, and your households, and come unto me, and I give to you the good of the land of Egypt, and eat ye the fat of the land.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

45:16-24 Pharaoh was kind to Joseph, and to his relations for his sake. Egypt would make up the losses of their removal. Thus those for whom Christ intends his heavenly glory, ought not to regard the things of this world. The best of its enjoyments are but lumber; we cannot make sure of them while here, much less can we carry them away with us. Let us not set our eyes or hearts upon the world; there are better things for us in that blessed land, whither Christ, our Joseph, is gone to prepare a place. Joseph dismissed his brethren with a seasonable caution, See that ye fall not out by the way. He knew they were too apt to be quarrelsome; and having forgiven them all, he lays this charge upon them, not to upbraid one another. This command our Lord Jesus has given to us, that we love one another, and that whatever happens, or has happened, we fall not out. For we are brethren, we have all one Father. We are all guilty, and instead of quarrelling with one another, have reason to fall out with ourselves. We are, or hope to be, forgiven of God, whom we have all offended, and, therefore, should be ready to forgive one another. We are by the way, a way through the land of Egypt, where we have many eyes upon us, that seek advantage against us; a way that leads to the heavenly Canaan, where we hope to be for ever in perfect peace.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And take your father, and your households,.... Or families, for they were all married persons, and had children, and no doubt servants also: all were to be brought with them:

and come unto me; into his kingdom, to his metropolis, and to his palace, and into his presence:

and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt; the best things which it affords, and the best and most fruitful part of it, as he afterwards did, which was the land of Goshen:

and ye shall eat the fat of the land; the choicest fruits of the earth, such as were produced in fields and gardens; meaning that they should have the finest of the wheat for themselves, and the fattest pastures for their flocks.

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Pharaoh Invites Jacob to Egypt
16And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brothers are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants. 17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Say to your brothers, This do you; lade your beasts, and go, get you to the land of Canaan; 18And take your father and your households, and come to me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you shall eat the fat of the land. …

Genesis 27:28 May God give you heaven's dew and earth's richness-- an abundance of grain and new wine.
Genesis 45:17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this: Load your animals and return to the land of Canaan,
Genesis 46:34 you should answer, 'Your servants have tended livestock from our boyhood on, just as our fathers did.' Then you will be allowed to settle in the region of Goshen, for all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians."
Genesis 47:6 and the land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land. Let them live in Goshen. And if you know of any among them with special ability, put them in charge of my own livestock."