Genesis 41:57
And all the inhabitants of the earth came into Mizraim to buy corn of Joseph, because the famine was mighty in all the earth.
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Genesis 12:10And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Mizraim, to sojourn there, because the famine was strong in the land.
Genesis 41:56And the famine was over all the face of the land; and Joseph opened all the granaries in which was the corn, and sold to the Mizraee, and the famine became mighty in the land of Mizraim.
Genesis 42:5And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among them who came; for the famine was in the land of Kenaan.
Genesis 43:1But the famine prevailed in the land.
Genesis 50:20When you thought evil against me, before the Lord it was intended for good, to be done, as at this day, for the preservation of much people.
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 →