Genesis 41:57
And all countries came to Egypt to buy of Joseph, for the famine prevailed in all the earth.
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Genesis 12:10And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, because the famine prevailed in the land.
Genesis 41:56And the famine was on the face of all the earth; and Joseph opened all the granaries, and sold to all the Egyptians.
Genesis 42:5And the sons of Israel came to buy with those that came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 43:1But the famine prevailed in the land.
Genesis 50:20Ye took counsel against me for evil, but God took counsel for me for good, that the matter might be as it is today, and much people might be fed.
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 →