Genesis 41:55-56

41:55 When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the people of Egypt, ¹  “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”

41:56 While the famine was over all the earth, ²  Joseph opened the storehouses ³  and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.

Genesis 45:13

45:13 So tell ⁴  my father about all my honor in Egypt and about everything you have seen. But bring my father down here quickly!” ⁵ 

Genesis 47:20

47:20 So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. Each ⁶  of the Egyptians sold his field, for the famine was severe. ⁷  So the land became Pharaoh’s.

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¹ tn Heb “to all Egypt.” The name of the country is used by metonymy for the inhabitants.

² tn Or “over the entire land”; Heb “over all the face of the earth.” The disjunctive clause is circumstantial-temporal to the next clause.

³ tc The MT reads “he opened all that was in [or “among”] them.” The translation follows the reading of the LXX and Syriac versions.

⁴ tn The perfect verbal form with the vav consecutive here expresses instruction.

⁵ tn Heb “and hurry and bring down my father to here.”

⁶ tn The Hebrew text connects this clause with the preceding one with a causal particle (כִּי, ki). The translation divides the clauses into two sentences for stylistic reasons.

⁷ tn The Hebrew text adds “upon them.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.