With bread according to their families לחם לפי השׂ Š, literally, with bread to the mouth of the little one That is, as much as every one desired, without any restraint, mouth being put for desire, as chap. Genesis 24:57; Isaiah 30:2; or, as a little child is nourished: he, as it were, put their meat into their very mouths: it was brought to them without any more care or pains of their own, than an infant takes for its food.
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Genesis 47:12
12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, accordingb to their families.