Genesis 41:31

And the plenty will not be known afterwards in the land by reason of that famine; for it will be very grievous.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.

In Context

30And there will arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will waste away the land.

32And as regards the double repetition of the dream to Pharaoh, it is that the thing is established by God, and God will hasten to do it.

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Cross References

Isaiah 24:20The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunkard, and is shaken like a night hut; and its transgression is heavy upon it; and it falleth and shall not rise again.

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 →

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