Bible Timeline · The Patriarchs and Egypt

7 years of plenty

Approximately 1714 BC, lasting about 7 years. 7 verses describe this event, involving Joseph, Pharaoh.

Scripture

  • 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 41:50

    And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti–pherah priest of On bare unto him.

  • Genesis 41:51

    And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.

  • Genesis 41:52

    And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

  • Genesis 41:53

    And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.