Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.
Genesis 41:57 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Moreover, all the world came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine became severe throughout the world. Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And all countries came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all [the known] earth. American Standard Version (1901) And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was sore in all the earth. Common English Bible Every country came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because in every country the famine had also become more severe. Catholic Public Domain Version And all the provinces came to Egypt, to buy food and to temper the misfortune of their destitution. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want. |
Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.
and the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in every country, but throughout the land of Egypt there was bread.
And since the famine had spread over all the land, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why do you keep looking at one another?
Thus the sons of Israel were among the people who came to buy grain, for the famine had reached the land of Canaan.
Now Joseph was governor over the land; it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain that they bought, and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.
Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.
lest the land from which you have brought us say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them and because he hated them, he has brought them out to let them die in the wilderness.”