And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.

While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.

Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.

And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land.

May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain and wine in full measure:

And Isaac answering said, But I have made him your master, and have given him all his brothers for servants; I have made him strong with grain and wine: what then am I to do for you, my son?

Now at the time of the grain-cutting, Reuben saw some love-fruits in the field, and took them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to her, Let me have some of your son's love-fruits.

These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Keran.

We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine.

But he went to sleep again and had a second dream, in which he saw seven heads of grain, full and good, all on one stem.

And again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stem:

The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.

The seven thin and poor-looking cows who came up after them are seven years; and the seven heads of grain, dry and wasted by the east wind, are seven years when there will be no food.

Seven years are coming in which there will be great wealth of grain in Egypt;

And let them get together all the food in those good years and make a store of grain under Pharaoh's control for the use of the towns, and let them keep it.

So he got together a store of grain like the sand of the sea; so great a store that after a time he gave up measuring it, for it might not be measured.

And everywhere on the earth they were short of food; then Joseph, opening all his store-houses, gave the people of Egypt grain for money; so great was the need of food in the land of Egypt.

And all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for the need was great over all the earth.

Now Jacob, hearing that there was grain in Egypt, said to his sons, Why are you looking at one another?

And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.

So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt.

And the sons of Israel came with all the others to get grain: for they were very short of food in the land of Canaan.

Now Joseph was ruler over all the land, and it was he who gave out the grain to all the people of the land; and Joseph's brothers came before him and went down on their faces to the earth.

If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;

Then Joseph gave orders for their bags to be made full of grain, and for every man's money to be put back into his bag, and for food to be given them for the journey: which was done.

Then they put the bags of grain on their asses and went away.

And the ruler of the land said, In this way I may be certain that you are true men; let one of you be kept here with me, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;

And when they took the grain out of their bags, it was seen that every man's parcel of money was in his bag; and when they and their father saw the money, they were full of fear.

And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food.

For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain.

And to his father he sent ten asses with good things from Egypt on their backs, and ten she-asses with grain and bread and food for his father on the journey.

And all the money in Egypt and in the land of Canaan which had been given for grain, came into the hands of Joseph: and he put it in Pharaoh's house.

And Joseph said, Give me your cattle; I will give you grain in exchange for your cattle if your money is all gone.

And when the grain is cut, you are to give a fifth part to Pharaoh, and four parts will be yours for seed and food, and for your families and your little ones.

Blessings of sons, old and young, to the father: blessings of the oldest mountains and the fruit of the eternal hills: let them come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of him who was separate from his brothers.

And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.

And when the people of the land, the people of Canaan, at the grain-floor of Atad, saw their grief, they said, Great is the grief of the Egyptians: so the place was named Abel-mizraim, on the other side of Jordan.