Genesis 41:47

And the plenty of [the] seven years came, and [the] ripe corns were bound into handfuls/into sheaves (or and the harvest came forth in abundance),

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In The King James Version

And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

In Context

46Forsooth Joseph was of thirty years, when he stood in the sight of king Pharaoh, and compassed all the countries of Egypt. (And Joseph was thirty years old, when he stood before Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and then went forth through all the countryside.)

48and (they) were gathered into the barns of Egypt, also all the abundance of ripe corns was kept in all cities (or and all the abundance of the harvest was kept in all the cities),

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Cross References

Genesis 26:12Forsooth Isaac sowed in that land, and he found an hundredfold increase in that year (or and he received a hundredfold increase that year); and the Lord blessed him.

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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