Genesis 41:57

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 42:5 : 5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
  • Gen 41:54 : 54 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
  • Gen 41:56 : 56 The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
  • Gen 42:1 : 1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
  • Gen 50:20 : 20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.
  • Deut 9:28 : 28 lest the land whence you brought us out say, Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.
  • Ps 105:16-17 : 16 He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies. 17 He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 41:53-56
    4 verses
    89%

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

    54 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine 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, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."

    56 The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

  • Gen 42:5-6
    2 verses
    85%

    5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

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

  • Gen 47:12-15
    4 verses
    82%

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

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

    14 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 When the money was all spent 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 our money fails."

  • Gen 43:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1 The famine was severe in the land.

    2 It happened, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, "Go again, buy us a little more food."

  • Gen 47:18-20
    3 verses
    81%

    18 When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of cattle are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

    19 Why should 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. Give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land won't be desolate."

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

  • Gen 41:35-36
    2 verses
    80%

    35 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.

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

  • Acts 7:11
    78%

    11 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

  • Gen 42:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

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

    2 He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."

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

  • Gen 41:29-31
    3 verses
    77%

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

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

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

  • Gen 41:47-48
    2 verses
    77%

    47 In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly.

    48 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, he laid up in the same.

  • Gen 12:10
    74%

    10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was sore in the land.