Genesis 41:30
After this, there will follow another seven years, of such great barrenness that all the former abundance will be delivered into oblivion. For the famine will consume all the land,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
29Behold, there will arrive seven years of great fertility throughout the entire land of Egypt.
31and the greatness of this destitution will cause the greatness of the abundance to be lost.
Cross References
Genesis 41:27Likewise, the seven thin and emaciated cows, which ascended after them, and the seven thin ears of grain, which were struck with the burning wind, are seven approaching years of famine.
Genesis 41:54the seven years of destitution, which Joseph had predicted, began to arrive. And the famine prevailed throughout the whole world, but there was bread in all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 47:13For in the whole world there was a lack of bread, and a famine had oppressed the land, most of all Egypt and Canaan,
1 Kings 17:1And Elijah the Tishbite, from the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord lives, the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, there shall not be dew or rain during these years, except by the words of my mouth.”
Psalms 105:16And they provoked Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.
Isaiah 65:16By that name, whoever is blessed on earth, will be blessed in God. Amen! And whoever swears on earth, will swear by God. Amen! For the past anguishes have been delivered into oblivion, and they have been hidden from my eyes.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:18-33
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dream. ( b. c. 1715.) 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river: 18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow: 19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: 20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: 21 And when they had eaten… Read the whole commentary →