Genesis 41:57
And all the provinces came to Egypt, to buy food and to temper the misfortune of their destitution.
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Genesis 12:10But a famine occurred in the land. And Abram descended to Egypt, to sojourn there. For famine prevailed over the land.
Genesis 41:56Then the famine increased daily in all the land. And Joseph opened all of the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. For the famine had oppressed them also.
Genesis 42:5And they entered into the land of Egypt with the others who traveled to buy. For the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 43:1Meanwhile, the famine pressed heavily on all the land.
Genesis 50:20You devised evil against me. But God turned it into good, so that he might exalt me, just as you presently discern, and so that he might bring about the salvation of many peoples.
Psalms 105:16And they provoked Moses in the camp, and Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.
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 →