Genesis 47:19 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Why therefore shall we die before thy eyes? we will be thine, both we and our lands: buy us to be the king’s servants, and give us seed, lest for want of tillers the land be turned into a wilderness.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
Therefore, why should you watch us die? Both we and our land will be yours. Buy us into royal servitude, but provide seed, lest by the dying off of cultivators the land be reduced to a wilderness.”
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
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.”
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
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.”
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give [us] seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.
LSV Literal Standard Version
why do we die before your eyes, both we and our ground? Buy us and our ground for bread, and we and our ground are servants to Pharaoh; and give seed, and we live, and do not die, and the ground is not desolate.”
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
Why should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bondmen to Pharaoh; and give seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
Why shall we die before thy eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give [us] seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
Why shall we perish in thy sight, both we, and our land? bye vs and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bonde to Pharaoh: therefore giue vs seede, that we may liue and not dye, and that the land go not to waste.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jewish
JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)
Wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bondmen unto Pharaoh; and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.'
Individual translator
Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
In order, then, that we die not before thee, and the land be made desolate, buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharao: give seed that we may sow, and live and not die, so our land shall not be made desolate.
LXXUP Updated Brenton English Septuagint
In order, then, that we die not before thee, and the land be made desolate, buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: give seed that we may sow, and live and not die, so our land shall not be made desolate.
YLT Young's Literal Translation
why do we die before thine eyes, both we and our ground? buy us and our ground for bread, and we and our ground are servants to Pharaoh; and give seed, and we live, and die not, and the ground is not desolate.'
FBV Free Bible Version
Do you want us to die right in front of you? So buy us and our land in return for food. Then our land will belong to Pharaoh, and we'll be his slaves. Just give us grain so we can live and won't die, and so the land won't be abandoned.”
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
Are we to come to destruction before your eyes, we and our land? take us and our land and give us bread; and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh; and give us seed so that we may have life and the land may not become waste.
Spanish
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
¿Por qué moriremos delante de tus ojos, así nosotros como nuestra tierra? Cómpranos á nosotros y á nuestra tierra por pan, y seremos nosotros y nuestra tierra siervos de Faraón: y danos simiente para que vivamos y no muramos, y no sea asolada la tierra.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
¿Por qué hemos de morir? Cómprenos a nosotros y a nuestras tierras, y seremos esclavos del faraón. Cómprenos a nosotros por alimentos para que vivamos y para que la tierra no quede deshabitada.
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
¿Por qué tenemos que perecer delante de ti, tanto nosotros como nuestras tierras? Cómpranos a nosotros y a nuestra tierra por alimento, y nosotros y nuestras tierras seremos esclavos de Faraón. Pero danos semilla para que vivamos y no muramos, y la tierra no sea asolada.
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
¿Quieres que muramos delante de ti? Entonces cómpranos a nosotros y a nuestra tierra a cambio de comida. Entonces nuestra tierra pertenecerá al Faraón, y seremos sus esclavos. Danos grano para que podamos vivir y no muramos, y así la tierra no quedará abandonada”.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
¿Por qué hemos de morir delante de ti, nosotros y nuestras tierras? Cómpranos a nosotros y nuestras tierras a cambio de alimento. Nosotros y nuestras tierras perteneceremos al faraón. Danos semilla para que podamos vivir y la tierra no quede desierta».
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Scholarly edition
LXX Brenton's Greek Septuagint
ἵνα οὖν μὴ ἀποθάνωμεν ἐναντίον σου, καὶ ἡ γῆ ἐρημωθῇ, κτῆσαι ἡμᾶς καὶ τὴν γῆν ἡμῶν ἀντὶ ἄρτων, καὶ ἐσόμεθα ἡμεῖς καὶ ἡ γῆ ἡμῶν παῖδες τῷ Φαραώ· δὸς σπέρμα, ἵνα σπείρωμεν, καὶ ζῶμεν καὶ μὴ ἀποθάνωμεν, καὶ ἡ γῆ οὐκ ἐρημωθήσεται.
Hebrew
Scholarly edition
WLC Westminster Leningrad Codex
לָ֧מָּה נָמ֣וּת לְעֵינֶ֗יךָ גַּם־אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙ גַּ֣ם אַדְמָתֵ֔נוּ קְנֵֽה־אֹתָ֥נוּ וְאֶת־אַדְמָתֵ֖נוּ בַּלָּ֑חֶם וְנִֽהְיֶ֞ה אֲנַ֤חְנוּ וְאַדְמָתֵ֙נוּ֙ עֲבָדִ֣ים לְפַרְעֹ֔ה וְתֶן־זֶ֗רַע וְנִֽחְיֶה֙ וְלֹ֣א נָמ֔וּת וְהָאֲדָמָ֖ה לֹ֥א תֵשָֽׁם׃
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Cur ergo moriemur te vidente? et nos et terra nostra tui erimus: eme nos in servitutem regiam, et præbe semina, ne pereunte cultore redigatur terra in solitudinem.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
да не ᲂу҆́мремъ ᲂу҆̀бо пред̾ тобо́ю, и҆ землѧ̀ ѡ҆пꙋстѣ́етъ, кꙋпѝ на́съ и҆ зе́млю на́шꙋ хлѣ́бами: и҆ бꙋ́демъ мы̀ и҆ землѧ̀ на́ша рабѝ фараѡ́нꙋ: да́ждь сѣ́мѧ, да посѣ́емъ и҆ жи́ви бꙋ́демъ, и҆ не ᲂу҆́мремъ, и҆ землѧ̀ не ѡ҆пꙋстѣ́етъ.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
для чего нам погибать в глазах твоих, и нам и землям нашим? купи нас и земли наши за хлеб, и мы с землями нашими будем рабами фараону, а ты дай нам семян, чтобы нам быть живыми и не умереть, и чтобы не опустела земля.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
διά τι να απολεσθώμεν ενώπιόν σου και ημείς και η γη ημών; αγόρασον ημάς και την γην ημών διά άρτον· και θέλομεν είσθαι ημείς και η γη ημών δούλοι εις τον Φαραώ· και δος εις ημάς σπόρον, διά να ζήσωμεν και να μη αποθάνωμεν και η γη να μη ερημωθή.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Зашто да мремо на твоје очи? Ево и нас и наших њива; купи нас и њиве наше за хлеб, да с њивама својим будемо робови Фараону, и дај жита да останемо живи и не помремо и да земља не опусти.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Zašto da mremo na tvoje oči? Evo i nas i naših njiva; kupi nas i njive naše za hleb, da s njivama svojim budemo robovi Faraonu, i daj žita da ostanemo živi i ne pomremo i da zemlja ne opusti.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
لِمَاذَا نَمُوتُ أَمَامَ عَيْنَيْكَ نَحْنُ وَأَرْضُنَا جَمِيعًا؟ اِشْتَرِنَا وَأَرْضَنَا بِٱلْخُبْزِ، فَنَصِيرَ نَحْنُ وَأَرْضُنَا عَبِيدًا لِفِرْعَوْنَ، وَأَعْطِ بِذَارًا لِنَحْيَا وَلَا نَمُوتَ وَلَا تَصِيرَ أَرْضُنَا قَفْرًا».
Not in these translations (8)
Tyndale, Scío, PT1904, PT, RP2018, TR, Nestle 1904, SBLGNT