Genesis 41:57 - Easy To Read Version

⁵⁷ But the famine was bad everywhere! So people from the countries around Egypt had to come to Egypt to buy grain.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁷ 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

⁵⁷ 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)

⁵⁷ And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was sore in all the earth.

Common English Bible

⁵⁷ 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

⁵⁷ 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

⁵⁷ And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.

Genesis 41:57 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 12:10

During this time, the land was very dry. There was no rain, and no food was able to grow. So Abram went down to Egypt to live.

Genesis 41:54

And the seven years of hunger began, just like Joseph had said. No food grew anywhere in any of the countries in that area. But in Egypt, people had plenty to eat! Why? Because Joseph had stored the grain.

Genesis 41:56

There was famine [241] everywhere, so Joseph gave the people grain from the warehouses. Joseph sold the stored grain to the people of Egypt. The famine was bad in Egypt.

Genesis 42:1

{The famine [242] was also bad in Canaan.} But Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt. So Jacob said to his sons, “Why are we sitting here doing nothing?

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 42:6

Joseph was the governor of Egypt at the time. And Joseph was the man who checked the sale of grain to people who came to Egypt. So, Joseph’s brothers came to him and bowed before him.

Genesis 43:1

The time of hunger was very bad in that country.

Genesis 47:14

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

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!

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.’