Genesis 41:55
The seven years of scarcity, which Joseph had foretold, began to come: and the famine prevailed in the whole world, but there was bread in all the land of Egypt.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
54Now when the seven years of the plenty that had been in Egypt were past:
Cross References
Genesis 41:40He said therefore to Joseph: Seeing God hath shewn thee all that thou hast said, can I find one wiser and one like unto thee?
2 Kings 6:26And as the king of Israel was passing by the wall, a certain woman cried out to him, saying: Save me, my lord O king.
Jeremiah 14:1The Word of the Lord that came to Jeremias concerning the words of the drought.
Matthew 3:17And behold a voice from heaven, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
John 1:14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we saw his glory, the glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Colossians 1:19Because in him, it hath well pleased the Father, that all fullness should dwell;
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 →