Genesis 41:31

and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine which followeth; for it shall be very grievous.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.

In Context

30And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;

32And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice, it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

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Cross References

Isaiah 24:20The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunken man, and swayeth to and fro as a lodge; and the transgression thereof is heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:18-33

Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dream. ( b. c. 1715.) 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river: 18 And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fatfleshed and well favoured; and they fed in a meadow: 19 And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness: 20 And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: 21 And when they had eaten… Read the whole commentary →

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