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Genesis 47:19 (KJV)

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.

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Genesis 41:36 - And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
Nehemiah 5:2 - For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, [are] many: therefore we take up corn [for them], that we may eat, and live.
Job 2:4 - And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
Lamentations 1:11 - All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
Lamentations 5:6 - We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
Lamentations 5:9 - We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
Matthew 16:26 - ‹For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?›
Philippians 3:8 - Yea doubtless, and I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ,

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