During the seven years of abundance the land produced outstanding harvests.
Genesis 41:48 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Joseph gathered all the excess food in the land of Egypt during the seven years and put it in the cities. He put the food in every city from the fields around it. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And he gathered up all the [surplus] food of the seven [good] years in the land of Egypt and stored up the food in the cities; he stored away in each city the food from the fields around it. American Standard Version (1901) And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. Common English Bible He collected all of the food during the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt, and stored the food in cities. In each city, he stored the food from the fields surrounding it. Catholic Public Domain Version And now all the abundance of grain was stored away in every city. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And all the abundance of grain was laid up in every city. |
During the seven years of abundance the land produced outstanding harvests.
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance #– #like the sand of the sea #– #that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure.
and Joseph made the people servants from one end of Egypt to the other.