Genesis 41:36
This food will be a reserve supply for our country during the seven years of famine that will happen in Egypt. Then the land will not be ruined by the famine.
Genesis 47:13-25
The famine was so severe that there was no food anywhere. The people of Egypt and Canaan became weak with hunger.
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And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
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Genesis 47:13
The famine was so severe that there was no food anywhere. The people of Egypt and Canaan became weak with hunger.
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Genesis 41:30
Seven years of famine will follow. Then people will forget that there was plenty of food in Egypt. The famine will ruin the land.
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Genesis 41:48
He gathered all the food of these seven years that occurred in the land of Egypt and placed the food in the cities. He placed in every city the food from its own surrounding fields.