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Genesis 41:57

New American Bible - revised edition

Indeed, the whole world came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, for famine had gripped the whole world.

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There was famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, since the famine in the land was severe.

the seven years of famine set in, just as Joseph had said. Although there was famine in all the other countries, food was available throughout the land of Egypt.

When the famine had spread throughout the land, Joseph opened all the cities that had grain and rationed it to the Egyptians, since the famine had gripped the land of Egypt.

When Jacob learned that grain rations were for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons: “Why do you keep looking at one another?”

And so the sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, since there was famine in the land of Canaan.

Joseph, as governor of the country, was the one who sold grain to all the people of the land. When Joseph’s brothers came, they bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.

Now the famine in the land grew severe.

Joseph gathered in, as payment for the grain that they were buying, all the money that was to be found in Egypt and Canaan, and he put it in Pharaoh’s house.

Even though you meant harm to me, God meant it for good, to achieve this present end, the survival of many people.

lest the land from which you have brought us say, “The Lord was not able to bring them into the land he promised them, and out of hatred for them, he brought them out to let them die in the wilderness.”




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