Neville Goddard on Genesis 47:23-24 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Genesis 47 in context

Scripture Focus

23Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

24And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.

Genesis 47:23-24

Biblical Context

Joseph arranges for the people to receive seed and land, and in the increase they owe a fifth to Pharaoh while four parts remain for their own use—seed, food, households, and their little ones.

Neville's Inner Vision

Genesis 47:23-24 invites us to see the outer world's arrangement as the fruit of an inner law. In Neville's sense, the seed is a thought-form planted in the field of awareness; the land is your life’s domain where ideas take root and harvest. The fifth given to Pharaoh is not a crushing tax but a recognition of the outer order—a portion you willingly acknowledge as the pattern that supports the whole. The four parts kept for yourselves are the energy you unleash in your own world: seed to sow, food to nourish your body, care for your household, and hope for your little ones. When you hold this vision—seed implanted, land attended, increase assured—you align with the natural law of supply: your inner state determines the outer abundance. The more you prove to yourself that you own and tend the seed, the more the harvest appears.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine yourself sowing a seed in your inner field; then mentally allocate a fifth to the outer world (Pharaoh) and reserve four parts for your own life—the seed, food, household, and little ones. Feel the reality of this arrangement as already true.