Genesis 41:54
The seven years of famine began, as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was food.
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53The seven years of abundance that was in the land of Egypt came to an end.
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Genesis 41:3Behold, seven other cows came up after them out of the Nile, undesirable and thin. They stood by the other cows on the bank of the river.
Genesis 41:27The seven thin and undesirable cows that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven thin heads scorched by the east wind will be seven years of famine.
Genesis 42:2He said, “See here, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy for us from there so we may live and not die.”
Genesis 42:6Now Joseph was the governor over the land. He was the one who sold to all the people of the land. Joseph's brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
Genesis 45:11I will provide for you there, for there are still five years of famine, so that you do not come to poverty, you, your household, and all that you have.”'
Psalms 105:16He called for a famine on the land; 1 he cut off the whole supply of bread. 1
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 →