Genesis 41:57
All the earth was coming to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
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Genesis 12:10There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down into Egypt to stay, for the famine was severe in the land.
Genesis 41:56The famine was over all the face of the whole land. Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
Genesis 42:5The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 43:1The famine was severe in the land.
Genesis 50:20As for you, you meant to harm me, but God meant it for good, to preserve the lives of many people, as you see today.
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 →