Genesis 41:57

New English Translation

People from every country came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

Genesis 41:54

Then the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had predicted. There was famine in all the other lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was food.

Genesis 41:56

While the famine was over all the earth, Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.

Genesis 42:1

When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you looking at each other?”

Genesis 42:5

So Israel’s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 42:6

Now Joseph was the ruler of the country, the one who sold grain to all the people of the country. Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

Genesis 43:1

Now the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 47:14

Joseph collected all the money that could be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan as payment for the grain they were buying. Then Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s palace.

Genesis 50:20

As for you, you meant to harm me, but God intended it for a good purpose, so he could preserve the lives of many people, as you can see this day.

Deuteronomy 9:28

Otherwise the people of the land from which you brought us will say, “The Lord was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the desert.”