Genesis 41:53

And so, when the seven years of fertility that occurred in Egypt had passed,

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In The King James Version

And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.

In Context

52Likewise, he named the second Ephraim, saying, “God has caused me to increase in the land of my poverty.”

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.

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Cross References

Psalms 73:20Consider your covenant. For those who have been darkened upon the earth have been filled by the iniquity of the houses.

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 →

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