Genesis 47:13
For in the whole world there was a lack of bread, and a famine had oppressed the land, most of all Egypt and Canaan,
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In Context
12And he fed them, along with all his father’s house, providing portions of food to each one.
Cross References
Genesis 41:30After 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,
1 Kings 18:5Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go into the land, to all fountains of water, and to all the valleys, for perhaps we will be able to find plants, and save the horses and mules, so that the beasts of burden may not perish entirely.”
Jeremiah 14:1The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the words of the drought.
Lamentations 4:9TETH. It was better for those slain by the sword, than for those put to death by famine. For these waste away, being consumed by the sterility of the land.
Acts 7:11Then a famine occurred in all of Egypt and Canaan, and a great tribulation. And our fathers did not find food.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 47:2-13
Pharaoh's Generosity; Jacob Presented to Pharaoh. ( b. c. 1706.) 1 Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen. 2 And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. 3 And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers. 4 They… Read the whole commentary →