Genesis 41:35

And collect all the produce of those good years that come, and lay up provision under the hand of Pharoh’s officers, and preserve it in the cities:

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

In Context

34Let Pharoh do this, and appoint officers (faithful men) over the land, and let them sow the land of Mizraim in the seven years of plenty,

36And it will be provision for the people of the land in the seven years of famine that are coming in the land of Mizraim, that the people of the land may not be consumed by the famine.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:48And he collected all the provision of the seven years which was in the land of Mizraim, and laid up the provision in cities, in the midst of each city the provision of the land surrounding it.

Genesis 45:6For these two years hath famine been in the land, and there are yet five years in which there will be neither seed nor harvest.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 41:34-46

Joseph's Exaltation. ( b. c. 1715.) 33 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt. 34 Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. 35 And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. 36 And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which… Read the whole commentary →

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