Genesis 41:48

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years in which there was plenty in the land of Egypt, and laid up food in cities—the food of the fields of the city. which were round about it, laid he up within it.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

47And the land produced, in the seven years of plenty, by handfuls,

49Thus did Joseph heap up corn like the sand of the sea making it exceeding abundant,—until one hath left off reckoning, because it cannot be reckoned.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:34Let Pharaoh do this, that he may appoint overseers over the land,—so shall he take up a fifth of the land of Egypt, during the seven years of plenty.

Genesis 47:21And as for the people, he brought them into bondage as servants,—from one end of the boundary of Egypt unto the other end thereof.

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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