Genesis 41:36
This will be a food reserve for the country during the seven years of famine so that the people won't die of starvation.”
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37Pharaoh and all his officials thought Joseph's proposal was a good idea.
Cross References
Genesis 47:13No food was left in the whole country because the famine had become so bad. Throughout Egypt and Canaan people were starving.
Genesis 47:19Do you want us to die right in front of you? So buy us and our land in return for food. Then our land will belong to Pharaoh, and we'll be his slaves. Just give us grain so we can live and won't die, and so the land won't be abandoned.”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:34-46
Joseph's Exaltation. ( b. c. 1715.) 33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. 35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. 36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which… Read the whole commentary →