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Genesis 47, 13-26 King James Version
Four thousand years ago economic hard times fell upon Egypt , and the people turned to the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them. Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses. So, the people brought their money to Pharaoh, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain. This went on until the peoples’ money ran out and they were hungry again.
When they returned to Pharaoh for additional grain, they brought their cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkeys - to barter for grain, and the Genesis record says that only took them through the end of that year.
But the famine wasn't over. The next year, the people came before Pharaoh and admitted they had nothing left, except their land and their own lives. "There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh." So they surrendered their homes, their land, and their real estate to Pharaoh's government, and then sold themselves into slavery to him, in return for grain.
can't have any historical references around to alert the sheeple.
Four thousand years ago economic hard times fell upon Egypt , and the people turned to the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them. Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses. So, the people brought their money to Pharaoh, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain. This went on until the peoples’ money ran out and they were hungry again.
When they returned to Pharaoh for additional grain, they brought their cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkeys - to barter for grain, and the Genesis record says that only took them through the end of that year.
But the famine wasn't over. The next year, the people came before Pharaoh and admitted they had nothing left, except their land and their own lives. "There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh." So they surrendered their homes, their land, and their real estate to Pharaoh's government, and then sold themselves into slavery to him, in return for grain.
can't have any historical references around to alert the sheeple.
