Genesis 41:57

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And people from all the surrounding lands came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the lands.

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  • Gen 42:5 : 5 So the sons of Israel came to buy grain, along with others who were coming, for the famine was also in the land of Canaan.
  • Gen 41:54 : 54 Then the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in every land, but in all the land of Egypt there was food.
  • Gen 41:56 : 56 The famine was severe over the entire land. Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine grew more severe throughout Egypt.
  • Gen 42:1 : 1 When Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, 'Why are you standing around looking at each other?'
  • Gen 50:20 : 20 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done—the saving of many lives.
  • Deut 9:28 : 28 Otherwise, the land from which you brought us out will say, "The LORD was not able to bring them into the land he promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to kill them in the wilderness."
  • Ps 105:16-17 : 16 He called famine upon the land; He broke the supply of bread. 17 He sent a man ahead of them—Joseph, who was sold as a slave.

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  • Gen 41:53-56
    4 verses
    89%

    53 The seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end.

    54 Then the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in every land, but in all the land of Egypt there was food.

    55 When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, 'Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.'

    56 The famine was severe over the entire land. Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine grew more severe throughout Egypt.

  • Gen 42:5-6
    2 verses
    85%

    5 So the sons of Israel came to buy grain, along with others who were coming, for the famine was also in the land of Canaan.

    6 Now Joseph was the ruler over the land, the one who sold grain to all its people. Joseph's brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.

  • Gen 47:12-15
    4 verses
    82%

    12 Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household according to the number of their children.

    13 There was no food in the entire land because the famine was very severe. The land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away under the pressure of the famine.

    14 Joseph collected all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.

    15 When the money from the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, 'Give us food! Why should we die in front of you? For our money is gone.'

  • Gen 43:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1 Now the famine was severe in the land.

    2 When they had finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy a little more food for us.”

  • Gen 47:18-20
    3 verses
    81%

    18 When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said, 'We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and our livestock has been given to you. There is nothing left for our lord but our bodies and our land.'

    19 'Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.'

    20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians sold their fields, because the famine was severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s.

  • Gen 41:35-36
    2 verses
    80%

    35 Let them gather all the food from these good years that are coming and store up grain under Pharaoh’s authority for food in the cities, and let them guard it.

    36 This food will be held in reserve for the land to be used during the seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt, so that the land will not be destroyed by the famine.

  • Acts 7:11
    78%

    11 Then a famine came over the entire land of Egypt and Canaan, bringing great distress, and our ancestors could not find food.

  • Gen 42:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1 When Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, 'Why are you standing around looking at each other?'

    2 And he said, 'Look, I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.'

    3 Then ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

  • Gen 41:29-31
    3 verses
    77%

    29 Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt.

    30 But after them, seven years of famine will arise, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten. The famine will ravage the land.

    31 The abundance in the land will not be remembered because the famine that follows will be so severe.

  • Gen 41:47-48
    2 verses
    77%

    47 During the seven years of abundance, the land produced bountifully.

    48 Joseph gathered all the food produced during those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city, he stored the food from the surrounding fields.

  • Gen 12:10
    74%

    10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

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