Genesis 41:57

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but the famine was bad everywhere. So people from the countries around Egypt had to come to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain.

Cross References

Genesis 42:5

The famine was very bad in Canaan, so there were many people from Canaan who went to Egypt to buy grain. Among them were the sons of Israel.

Genesis 41:56

There was famine everywhere, so Joseph gave the people grain from the warehouses. He sold the stored grain to the people of Egypt. The famine was bad in Egypt,

Genesis 41:54

Then the seven years of hunger began, just as Joseph had said. No food grew anywhere in any of the countries in that area. But in Egypt people had plenty to eat because Joseph had stored the grain.

Deuteronomy 9:28

If you punish your people, the Egyptians might say, “The Lord was not able to take his people into the land he promised them. And he hated them. So he took them into the desert to kill them.”

Genesis 50:20

It is true that you planned to do something bad to me. But really, God was planning good things. God’s plan was to use me to save the lives of many people. And that is what happened.

Genesis 42:1

During the famine in Canaan, Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt. So he said to his sons, “Why are you sitting here doing nothing?

Genesis 12:10

During this time there was not enough food in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live.

Genesis 43:1

The famine was very bad in that country.

Genesis 42:6

Joseph was the governor of Egypt at the time. He was the one who checked the sale of grain to people who came to Egypt to buy it. Joseph’s brothers came to him and bowed before him.

Genesis 47:14

People in the land bought more and more grain. Joseph saved the money and brought it to Pharaoh’s house.