Genesis 41:54
Now when the seven years of the plenty that had been in Egypt were past:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
53And he named the second Epharaim, saying: God hath made me to grow in the land of my poverty.
Cross References
Genesis 41:3Other seven also came up out of the river, ill favoured, and leanfleshed: and they fed on the very bank of the river, in green places:
Genesis 41:27The seven beautiful kine, and the seven full ears, are seven years of plenty: and both contain the same meaning of the dream.
Genesis 42:2I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: go ye down, and buy us necessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.
Genesis 42:6And Joseph was governor in the land of Egypt, and corn was sold by his direction to the people. And when his brethren had bowed down to him,
Genesis 45:11And there I will feed thee, (for there are yet five years of famine remaining,) lest both thou perish, and thy house, and all things that thou hast.
Psalms 105:16And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.
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 →