Genesis 41:48

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

49and so great abundance was of wheat (or and there was such a great abundance of corn, or of grain), that it was made even to the gravel, ( or the sand), of the sea, and the plenty passed (any) measure.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:34which man ordain governors by all countries, and gather he into barns the fifth part of fruits by [the] seven years of plenty, that shall come now; (and that man ordain governors over all the countryside, and gather he into the barns the fifth part of the harvest of the land during the seven years of plenty that shall now come;)

Genesis 47:21from the last terms of Egypt till to the last ends 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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