Genesis 41:54
And the seven years of famine began to come, as Joseph said; and there was a famine in all the land; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
53And the seven years of plenty passed away, which were in the land of Egypt.
Cross References
Genesis 41:3And other seven cows came up after these out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and fed by the other cows on the bank of the river.
Genesis 41:27And the seven thin kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven thin and blasted ears are seven years; there shall be seven years of famine.
Genesis 42:2Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt; go down thither, and buy for us a little food, that we may live, and not die.
Genesis 42:6And Joseph was ruler of the land; he sold to all the people of the land. And the brethren of Joseph, having come, did reverence to him, bowing with the face to the ground.
Genesis 45:11And I will nourish thee there: for the famine is yet for five years; lest thou be consumed, and thy sons, and all thy possessions.
Psalms 105:16They provoked Moses also in the camp, 1 And Aaron the holy one of the Lord. 1
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 →