Genesis 41:48

He gathered up all the food of the seven years that was in the land of Egypt and put the food in the cities. He put into each city the food from the fields that surrounded it.

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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.

In Context

47In the seven bountiful years the land produced abundantly.

49Joseph stored up grain like the sand of the sea, so much that he stopped counting, because it was beyond counting.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:34Let Pharaoh appoint officials over the land, and let them take a fifth of the crops of Egypt in the seven abundant years.

Genesis 47:21As for the people, he made them slaves from one end of Egypt's border to the other end.

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 →

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