Genesis 41:48

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

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

49And all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:34Now therefore let the king provide a wise and industrious man, and make him ruler over the land of Egypt:

Genesis 47:21And all its people from one end of the borders of Egypt, even to the other end thereof,

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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