Genesis 41:54
the seven years of famine began, as Joseph had said; and there was famine in all lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was food,
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53When the seven years of plenty which had been in the land of Egypt were over,
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Genesis 41:3Then seven other cows came up after them out of the Nile, bad-looking and lean, and they stood by the other cows on the bank of the Nile.
Genesis 41:27The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are also seven years, and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind represent seven years of famine.
Genesis 42:2I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt; go down there and buy for us, so that we may live and not die.”
Genesis 42:6Now Joseph was the governor over the land; it was he who sold to all the people of the land. Therefore Joseph’s brothers came and bowed before him with their faces to the earth.
Genesis 45:11and there I will provide for you. Otherwise you, together with your household and all that you have, will starve; for there will be five more years of famine.’
Psalms 105:16When he called down famine on the land, and cut off the bread which sustained them,
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 →