7 years of famine

Scripture

• Genesis 41:54

  And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

• Genesis 41:55

  And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.

• 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.

• Genesis 41:57

  And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.

• Genesis 42:1

  Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

• Genesis 42:2

  And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

• Genesis 42:3

  And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

• Genesis 42:4

  But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

• Genesis 42:5

  And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 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.

• Genesis 42:7

  And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

• Genesis 42:8

  And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.

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