Genesis 41:47

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now in the seven good years the earth gave fruit in masses.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 26:12 : 12 Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.
  • Ps 72:16 : 16 May there be wide-stretching fields of grain in the land, shaking on the top of the mountains, full of fruit like Lebanon: may its stems be unnumbered like the grass of the earth.

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  • Gen 41:48-49
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    82%

    48And Joseph got together all the food of those seven years, and made a store of food in the towns: the produce of the fields round every town was stored up in the town.

    49So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured.

  • Gen 41:29-31
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    80%

    29Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt;

    30And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;

    31And men will have no memory of the good time because of the need which will come after, for it will be very bitter.

  • Gen 41:34-36
    3 verses
    77%

    34Let Pharaoh do this, and let him put overseers over the land of Egypt to put in store a fifth part of the produce of the land in the good years.

    35And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it.

    36And let that food be kept in store for the land till the seven bad years which are to come in Egypt; so that the land may not come to destruction through need of food.

  • Gen 41:53-54
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    53And so the seven good years in Egypt came to an end.

    54Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.

  • Gen 47:14
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    14And all the money in Egypt and in the land of Canaan which had been given for grain, came into the hands of Joseph: and he put it in Pharaoh's house.

  • Gen 41:56-57
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    56And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.

    57And all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for the need was great over all the earth.

  • Gen 41:46
    73%

    46Now Joseph was thirty years old when he came before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from before the face of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 41:26-27
    2 verses
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    26The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.

    27The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.

  • Gen 47:24
    73%

    24And when the grain is cut, you are to give a fifth part to Pharaoh, and four parts will be yours for seed and food, and for your families and your little ones.

  • Ps 107:37
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    37And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.

  • Gen 45:6
    72%

    6For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain.

  • Gen 41:5
    72%

    5But he went to sleep again and had a second dream, in which he saw seven heads of grain, full and good, all on one stem.

  • Gen 41:22
    72%

    22And again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stem:

  • Gen 41:7
    71%

    7And the seven thin heads made a meal of the good heads. And when Pharaoh was awake he saw it was a dream.

  • Lev 25:20-21
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    71%

    20And if you say, Where will our food come from in the seventh year, when we may not put in seed, or get in the increase

    21Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.

  • Gen 47:12
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    12And Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of their families.

  • Gen 47:27
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    27And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.

  • Gen 43:1
    70%

    1And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food.

  • Gen 41:18
    70%

    18And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass;

  • Gen 47:17-18
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    17So they took their cattle to Joseph and he gave them bread in exchange for their horses and flocks and herds and asses, so all that year he gave them food in exchange for their cattle.

    18And when that year was ended, they came to him in the second year, and said, We may not keep it from our lord's knowledge that all our money is gone, and all the herds of cattle are my lord's; there is nothing more to give my lord but our bodies and our land;