Genesis 41:56

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The famine became bad everywhere in Egypt, so Joseph opened the storehouses and sold the grain to the Egyptians.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

The crops failed, and there was no food anywhere in the land. So Abram and his wife Sarai went to live in Egypt for a while. But just before they got there, he said, “Sarai, you are really beautiful!

Genesis 41:30

but that will be followed by seven years when there won't be enough. The good years of plenty will be forgotten, and everywhere in Egypt people will be starving.

Genesis 41:35

Give them the power to collect the grain during those good years and to store it in your cities.

Genesis 41:55

When the famine finally struck Egypt, the people asked the king for food, but he said, “Go to Joseph and do what he tells you to do.”

Genesis 41:57

People from all over the world came to Egypt, because the famine was severe in their countries.

Genesis 42:6

Since Joseph was governor of Egypt and in charge of selling grain, his brothers came to him and bowed with their faces to the ground.

Genesis 43:1

The famine in Canaan got worse,

Isaiah 23:17

At the end of those seventy years, the LORD will let Tyre get back into business. The city will be like a woman who sells her body to everyone of every nation on earth,

Zechariah 5:3

Then he told me: This scroll puts a curse on everyone in the land who steals or tells lies. The writing on one side tells about the destruction of those who steal, while the writing on the other side tells about the destruction of those who lie.

Luke 21:35

like a trap. That day will surprise everyone on earth.

Acts 17:26

From one person God made all nations who live on earth, and he decided when and where every nation would be.