Genesis 41:57
And all countrees came to Egipte to Ioseph for to bye corne: because that the hunger was so sore in all landes.
William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 12:10After thys there came a derth in the lande. And Abram went doune in to Egipte to soiourne there for the derth was sore in the lande.
Genesis 41:56And when the derth was thorow out all the lande Ioseph opened all that was in the cities and solde vnto the Egiptias And hunger waxed fore in the land of Egipte.
Genesis 42:5And the sonnes of Israell came to bye corne amonge other that came for there was derth also in the lande of Canaan.
Genesis 43:1And the derth waxed sore in the lande.
Genesis 50:20Ye thoughte euell vnto me: but God turned it vnto good to bringe to passe as it is this daye euen to saue moch people a lyue
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 →