Genesis 41:56
And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt.
KJV
Crescebat autem quotidie fames in omni terra : aperuitque Joseph universa horrea, et vendebat Ægyptiis : nam et illos oppresserat fames.
Vulgate
⸂⸆⸃ καὶ ὁ λιμὸς ἦν ἐπὶ προσώπου πάσης τῆς γῆς· ἀνέῳξεν δὲ Ἰωσὴφ πάντας τοὺς σιτοβολῶνας, καὶ ἐπώλει πᾶσι τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις.
LXX
And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.
ASV
וְ/הָ/רָעָ֣ב הָיָ֔ה עַ֖ל כָּל פְּנֵ֣י הָ/אָ֑רֶץ וַ/יִּפְתַּ֨ח יוֹסֵ֜ף אֶֽת כָּל אֲשֶׁ֤ר בָּ/הֶם֙ וַ/יִּשְׁבֹּ֣ר לְ/מִצְרַ֔יִם וַ/יֶּחֱזַ֥ק הָֽ/רָעָ֖ב בְּ/אֶ֥רֶץ מִצְרָֽיִם
Hebrew
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Cross-references
- 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.
- Gen 42:6 — And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
- Gen 45:6 — For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
- Gen 47:14 — And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.