Holy Scripture

Genesis 47:12

A church father on this verse
“"He gave everybody rations individually," the text says. What is meant by "everybody individually"? Enough for everyone. You see, it is customary with Scripture to refer to every person sometimes as a soul and sometimes as a body. As it said previously, "Jacob's company traveling to Egypt numbered seventy-five souls"…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — HOMILIES ON GENESIS 65.11

Source: Septuagint

Original

12And Joseph gave provision to his father, and his brethren, and to all the house of his father, corn for each person.

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In context

10And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and departed from him.

11And Joseph settled his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded.

— Genesis 47:12 —

13And there was no corn in all the land, for the famine prevailed greatly; and the land of Egypt, and the land of Canaan, fainted for the famine.

14And Joseph gathered all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and the land of Canaan, in return for the corn which they bought, and he distributed corn to them; and Joseph brought all the money into the house of Pharaoh.

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