Genesis 41:57
And all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for the need was great over all the earth.
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Genesis 12:10And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.
Genesis 41:56And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.
Genesis 42:5And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 43:1\43:2\And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food.
Genesis 50:20As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today.
Psalms 105:16And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:47-57
The Famine in Egypt and Canaan. ( b. c. 1706.) 46 And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. 47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. 48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. 49 And Joseph gathered… Read the whole commentary →