Genesis 41:48 - The Scriptures 2009

⁴⁸ And he gathered all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Mitsrayim, and laid up the food in the cities. He laid up in every city the food of the fields which surrounded them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁸ And 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, laid he up in the same.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁸ And he gathered up all the [surplus] food of the seven [good] years in the land of Egypt and stored up the food in the cities; he stored away in each city the food from the fields around it.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁸ And 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, laid he up in the same.

Common English Bible

⁴⁸ He collected all of the food during the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt, and stored the food in cities. In each city, he stored the food from the fields surrounding it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁸ And now all the abundance of grain was stored away in every city.

Genesis 41:48 Cross References

Genesis 41:47

And in the seven years of plenty the ground brought forth generously.

Genesis 41:49

Thus Yosĕph gathered very much grain, as the sand of the sea, until he ceased counting, for it was without number.

Genesis 47:21

And as for the people, he moved them into the cities, from one end of the borders of Mitsrayim to the other end.