Genesis 41:55

Webster's Bible (1833)

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."

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  • Gen 41:40-41 : 40 You shall be over my house, and according to your word will all my people be ruled. Only in the throne I will be greater than you." 41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."
  • 2 Kgs 6:25-29 : 25 There was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver. 26 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, there cried a woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king. 27 He said, If Yahweh doesn't help you, whence shall I help you? out of the threshing floor, or out of the winepress? 28 The king said to her, What ails you? She answered, This woman said to me, Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow. 29 So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, Give your son, that we may eat him; and she has hid her son.
  • Ps 105:20-22 : 20 The king sent and freed him; Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free. 21 He made him lord of his house, And ruler of all of his possessions; 22 To discipline his princes at his pleasure, And to teach his elders wisdom.
  • Jer 14:1-6 : 1 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. 2 Judah mourns, and the gates of it languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up. 3 Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads. 4 Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed, they cover their heads. 5 Yes, the hind also in the field calves, and forsakes [her young], because there is no grass. 6 The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.
  • Lam 4:3-9 : 3 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. 4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them. 5 Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. 6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her. 7 Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire. 8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. 9 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field. 10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
  • Matt 3:17 : 17 Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."
  • Matt 17:5 : 5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him."
  • John 1:14-16 : 14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'" 16 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
  • Phil 4:19 : 19 My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
  • Col 1:19 : 19 For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 41:54
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    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 41:56-57
    2 verses
    83%

    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.

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

  • Gen 47:12-16
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    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."

    16 Joseph said, "Give your cattle; and I will give you food for your cattle, if money fails."

  • Gen 45:17-18
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    80%

    17 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Tell your brothers, 'Do this. Load your animals, and go, travel to the land of Canaan.

    18 Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'

  • Gen 41:35-36
    2 verses
    78%

    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."

  • Gen 42:2
    78%

    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."

  • Gen 45:9
    77%

    9 Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't wait.

  • Gen 43:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    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 47:5
    77%

    5 Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "Your father and your brothers have come to you.

  • Gen 47:19-20
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    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 42:5-6
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    76%

    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 41:41
    76%

    41 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."

  • Ps 105:16
    76%

    16 He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

  • Gen 41:44
    75%

    44 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."

  • Gen 41:30
    75%

    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,

  • Gen 45:2
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    2 He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard.

  • Gen 41:46
    75%

    46 Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

  • Acts 7:11
    75%

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