Genesis 41:57

KJV1611 – Modern English

All countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was so severe in all the lands.

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  • Gen 42:5 : 5 And the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
  • Gen 41:54 : 54 And the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. The famine was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
  • Gen 41:56 : 56 The famine was over all the face of the earth; and Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. The famine became severe in the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 42:1 : 1 Now when Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, Why do you look at one another?
  • Gen 50:20 : 20 But as for you, you thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
  • Deut 9:28 : 28 Lest the land from which you brought us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.
  • Ps 105:16-17 : 16 Moreover, he called for a famine upon the land: he broke the whole support of bread. 17 He sent a man before them, Joseph, who was sold for a servant:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 41:53-56
    4 verses
    89%

    53 The seven years of abundance which were in the land of Egypt ended.

    54 And the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. The famine was in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

    55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Then Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, Go to Joseph; whatever he says to you, do.

    56 The famine was over all the face of the earth; and Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians. The famine became severe in the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 42:5-6
    2 verses
    85%

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

    6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was who sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brothers came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the ground.

  • Gen 47:12-15
    4 verses
    82%

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

    13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.

    14 And 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.

    15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in your presence? for the money fails.

  • Gen 43:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1 And the famine was severe in the land.

    2 And it came to pass, when they had consumed the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, Go again, buy us a little food.

  • Gen 47:18-20
    3 verses
    81%

    18 When that year ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide it from my lord, that our money is spent; my lord also has our herds of cattle; there is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies and our lands:

    19 Why shall we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

    20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.

  • Gen 41:35-36
    2 verses
    80%

    35 Let them gather all the food of those good years that are coming, and store up grain under Pharaoh's authority, and let them keep food in the cities.

    36 This food shall be in reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which shall be in the land of Egypt, that the land may not perish during the famine.

  • 11 Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction; and our fathers found no sustenance.

  • Gen 42:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1 Now when Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, Why do you look at one another?

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

    3 And Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.

  • Gen 41:29-31
    3 verses
    77%

    29 Seven years of great abundance will come throughout all the land of Egypt.

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

    31 The abundance in the land will not be known because of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe.

  • Gen 41:47-48
    2 verses
    77%

    47 During the seven plentiful years the earth produced abundantly.

    48 So he gathered up all the food of the seven years that were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities; he laid up in every city the food of the fields which surrounded them.

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