Genesis 41:57
in fact the famine was very bad everywhere, so people from other countries all around came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph.
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Genesis 12:10But the land had been hit by famine. So Abram continued on to Egypt, planning to live there because the famine was so bad.
Genesis 41:56The famine had spread all over the country so Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the people of Egypt. The famine was very bad in Egypt,
Genesis 42:5So Israel's sons went to buy grain along with everyone else, because there was famine in Canaan too.
Genesis 43:1The famine continued to be really bad in Canaan,
Genesis 50:20While you planned bad things for me, God planned it for good so that in the end many lives could be saved.
Psalms 105:16He caused a famine in the Land of Canaan so that there was no food.
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 →