Genesis 41:57
The peoples of all lands came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, for the famine was severe throughout the world.
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Genesis 12:10There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live there; because the famine was severe in the land.
Genesis 41:56So when the famine was universal throughout the earth, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold food to the Egyptians: but the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
Genesis 42:5So the sons of Jacob went among others to buy grain, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 43:1The famine was severe in the land;
Genesis 50:20You plotted mischief against me, but God intended it for good, in order to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of the lives of many people.
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 →