9 Bible Verses about Plenty In Egypt

The Israelites said to them: If only Jehovah had allowed us to die in Egypt! There we sat by our pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted! You brought us out into this desert to let us all starve to death!

Why? The king asked. Have I failed to give you something? Is that why you want to go back home? Hadad answered: Just let me go. He went back to his country. As king of Edom, Hadad was an evil, bitter enemy of Israel.

Seven years are coming when there will be plenty of food in Egypt.

Make arrangements to appoint supervisors over the land. Take a fifth of Egypt's harvest during the seven good years.

During the seven years of plenty the land produced abundantly.

The seven years when there was plenty of food in Egypt came to an end.

Thus Joseph stored up grain in great abundance, like the sand of the sea. He finally stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.

Have them get their father and their families and come back here. I will give them the best of the land in Egypt. They will have more than enough to live on.

Is it not enough that you brought us out of a land flowing with milk and honey only to kill us in the desert? Do you also have to order us around?