Genesis 41:48

He collected all the food during the seven good years, and he stored the grain produced in the local fields in each town.

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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

47During the seven years of good harvests, the land produced plenty of food.

49Joseph piled up so much grain that it was like the sand of the seashore. Eventually he stopped keeping records because there was just so much!

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Cross References

Genesis 41:34Your Majesty should also appoint officials to be in charge of the land, and have them collect one-fifth of the produce of the country during the seven years of plenty.

Genesis 47:21and all the people became his slaves, from one end of Egypt to the other.

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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