Genesis 41:48
And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
Genesis 41:48 in other translations
| BSB | During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it. |
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| WEB | He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities. He stored food in each city from the fields around that city. |
| ASV | And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same. |
| YLT | And he gathereth all the food of the seven years which have been in the land of Egypt, and putteth food in the cities; the food of the field which is round about each city hath he put in its midst; |
| DARBY | And he gathered up all the food of the seven years that was in the land of Egypt, and put the food in the cities; the food of the fields of the city, which were round about it, he laid up in it. |
| BBE | And Joseph got together all the food of those seven years, and made a store of food in the towns: the produce of the fields round every town was stored up in the town. |
| Webster | And he gathered all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field which was around every city, he laid up in the same. |
What does Genesis 41:48 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 41:46-57
In the names of his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, Joseph owned the Divine providence. 1. He was made to forget his misery. 2. He was made fruitful in the land of his affliction. The seven plenteous years came, and were ended. We ought to look forward to the end of the days, both of our prosperity and of our opportunity. We must not be secure in prosperity, nor slothful in making good use of opportunity. Years of…
Genesis 41:48 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 41:48
- Genesis 41:34-36
Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years. And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. 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.
- Genesis 47:21
And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.
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Context
- Genesis 41:47
And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
- Genesis 41:48
And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
- Genesis 41:49
And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
Genesis 41:48 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y él juntó todo el mantenimiento de los siete años que fueron en la tierra de Egipto, y guardó mantenimiento en las ciudades, poniendo en cada ciudad el mantenimiento del campo de sus alrededores. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Joseph rassembla tous les vivres des sept années qui furent dans le pays d’Égypte, et mit les vivres dans les villes; il mit dans chaque ville les vivres provenant des champs qui étaient autour d’elle. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und er sammelte alle Speise der sieben Jahre, die im Lande Ägypten waren, und legte die Speise in die Städte; die Speise des Gefildes der Stadt, das um sie her war, legte er darein. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Omnis etiam frugum abundantia in singulis urbibus condita est. |