All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
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All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
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And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.
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And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.
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Passages linked to Genesis 41:57 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 41:54 The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
- Genesis 41:56 The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 42:1 Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
- Genesis 42:5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 50:20 As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to save many people alive, as is happening today.
- Deuteronomy 9:28 lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
- Psalms 105:16-17 He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies. He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, came to Egypt to Joseph.
Or, came to Egypt to Joseph.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to…
Gen 41:57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy [corn]; because that the famine was [so] sore in all lands.
Ver. 57. All countries came to Joseph, &c.] Foreigners also should be relieved so much as may be. King Edward VI sent five thousand pounds to relieve Protestants beyond the seas. {a} Geneva received our fugitives for religion in Queen Mary’s time: and Strasburg, the poor banished Lorrainers, that were well nigh famished, being forced to feed on hips and haws, &c.
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{a} Hi frondibus et gramine vescebantur. - Scultet., Annal., p. 315.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 57. All countries came into Egypt - to…
Verse 57. All countries came into Egypt - to buy] As there had not been a sufficiency of rains, vapours, c., to swell the Nile, to effect a proper inundation in Egypt, the same cause would produce drought, and consequently scarcity, in all the neighbouring countries and this may be all that is intended in the text.
1. As the providence of God evidently led the butler and baker of Pharaoh, as well as the king himself, to dream the prophetic dreams mentioned in this and the preceding chapter, so his Spirit in Joseph led to the true interpretation of them. What a proof do all these things give us of a providence that is so general as to extend its influence to every part, and so particular as to notice, influence, and direct the most minute circumstances! Surely God "has way every where, and all things serve his will."
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2. Dreams have been on one hand superstitiously regarded, and on the other skeptically disregarded. That some are prophetic there can be no doubt; that others are idle none can hesitate to believe. Dreams may be divided into the six following kinds:
1. Those which are the mere nightly result of the mind's reflections and perplexities during the business of the day.
2. Those which spring from a diseased state of the body, occasioning startings, terrors, c.
3. Those which spring from an impure state of the heart, mental repetitions of those acts or images of illicit pleasure, riot, and excess, which form the business of a profligate life.
4. Those which proceed from a diseased mind, occupied with schemes of pride, ambition, grandeur, c. These, as forming the characteristic conduct of the life, are repeatedly reacted in the deep watches of the night, and strongly agitate the soul with illusive enjoyments and disappointments.
5. Those which come immediately from Satan, which instil thoughts and principles opposed to truth and righteousness, leaving strong impressions on the mind suited to its natural bent and turn, which, in the course of the day, by favouring circumstances, may be called into action.
6. Those which come from God, and which necessarily lead to him, whether prophetic of future good or evil, or impressing holy purposes and heavenly resolutions. Whatever lends away from God, truth, and righteousness, must be from the source of evil whatever leads to obedience to God, and to acts of benevolence to man, must be from the source of goodness and truth. Reader, there is often as much superstition in disregarding as in attending to dreams and he who fears God will escape it in both.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain All provinces in the neighbourhood: for the stores laid…
All provinces in the neighbourhood: for the stores laid up would not have supplied all mankind even for a few months. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain The famine was sore in all lands--that is, the…
The famine was sore in all lands--that is, the lands contiguous to Egypt--Canaan, Syria, and Arabia.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 57. all countries] Cf. Gen_41:52, as we should say,…
57. all countries] Cf. Gen_41:52, as we should say, “the whole world.” This verse prepares us for the crisis in the Joseph narrative recorded in the following chapter.
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