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11 I will provide for you there, since there are five more years of famine to come, so that you and your household and all that you have will not come to poverty.’

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12 And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their dependents.

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If a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn their religious duty to their own family and make some repayment to their parents, for this is pleasing in God’s sight.(A)

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Then he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!(A) 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’(B) 11 But you say that if anyone tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is Corban’ (that is, an offering to God[a]),(C) 12 then you no longer permit doing anything for a father or mother,

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Footnotes

  1. 7.11 Gk lacks to God

But you say that whoever tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is given to God,’[a] then that person need not honor the father.[b](A) So, for the sake of your tradition, you nullify the word[c] of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 15.5 Or is an offering
  2. 15.5 Other ancient authorities add or the mother
  3. 15.6 Other ancient authorities read law or commandment

The land of Egypt is before you; settle your father and your brothers in the best part of the land; let them live in the land of Goshen; and if you know that there are capable men among them, put them in charge of my livestock.”(A)

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