“I have given him the land of Egypt as his payment for which he served, because they worked for me,’ says the Lord GOD.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ezekiel 29 contains 21 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.