Genesis 41:57

American Standard Version (1901)

And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was sore in all the earth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 42:5 : 5 And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
  • Gen 41:54 : 54 And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said: and there was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
  • Gen 41:56 : 56 And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 42:1 : 1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
  • Gen 50:20 : 20 And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
  • Deut 9:28 : 28 lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which he promised unto them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.
  • Ps 105:16-17 : 16 And he called for a famine upon the land; He brake the whole staff of bread. 17 He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 41:53-56
    4 verses
    89%

    53And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

    54And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said: and there was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

    55And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.

    56And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 42:5-6
    2 verses
    85%

    5And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

    6And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves to him with their faces to the earth.

  • Gen 47:12-15
    4 verses
    82%

    12And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

    13And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

    14And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

    15And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for [our] money faileth.

  • Gen 43:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1And the famine was sore in the land.

    2And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.

  • Gen 47:18-20
    3 verses
    81%

    18And when that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide from my lord, how that our money is all spent; and the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:

    19wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.

    20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh's.

  • Gen 41:35-36
    2 verses
    80%

    35And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

    36And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

  • Acts 7:11
    78%

    11Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

  • Gen 42:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

    2And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

    3And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy grain from Egypt.

  • Gen 41:29-31
    3 verses
    77%

    29Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

    30and there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;

    31and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine which followeth; for it shall be very grievous.

  • Gen 41:47-48
    2 verses
    77%

    47And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

    48And 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.

  • Gen 12:10
    74%

    10And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.