Genesis 47:16
Good News Translation
Joseph answered, "Bring your livestock; I will give you food in exchange for it if your money is all gone."

New Revised Standard Version
And Joseph answered, “Give me your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money is gone.”

Contemporary English Version
"If you don't have any money," Joseph answered, "give me your animals, and I'll let you have some grain."

New American Bible
“Give me your livestock if your money is gone,” replied Joseph. “I will give you food in return for your livestock.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he answered them: Bring me your cattle, and for them I will give you food, if you have no money.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he answered them: Bring me your cattle, and for them I will give you food, if you have no money.

Give your cattle.

Daniel 6:5-7 Then these men said: We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, unless perhaps concerning the law of his God. . . .

Proverbs 12:17 He that speaketh that which he knoweth, sheweth forth justice: but he that lieth, is a deceitful witness.

1 Corinthians 10:32 Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles and to the church of God:

Philippians 4:8 For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things.

Colossians 4:5 Walk with wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the time.

Context
Joseph's Leadership During the Famine
15And when the buyers wanted money, all Egypt came to Joseph, saying: Give us bread: why should we die in thy presence, having now no money? 16And he answered them: Bring me your cattle, and for them I will give you food, if you have no money.17And when they had brought them, he gave them food in exchange for their horses, and sheep, and oxen, and asses: and he maintained them that year for the exchange of their cattle.…
Cross References
Genesis 47:15
And when the buyers wanted money, all Egypt came to Joseph, saying: Give us bread: why should we die in thy presence, having now no money?

Genesis 47:17
And when they had brought them, he gave them food in exchange for their horses, and sheep, and oxen, and asses: and he maintained them that year for the exchange of their cattle.

Genesis 47:15
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