Genesis 41:47

(Now he was thirty years old when he stood before king Pharao) and he went round all the countries of Egypt.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

In Context

46And he turned his name, and called him in the Eyyptian tounge, The saviour of the world. And he gave him to wife Asenth the daughter of Putiphare priest of Heliopolis. Then Joseph went out to the land of Egypt:

48And the fruitfulness of the seven years came: and the corm being bound up into sheaves was gathered together into the barns of Egypt.

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Cross References

Genesis 26:12And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

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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