Genesis 41:54-56

41:54 Then the seven years of famine began, ¹  just as Joseph had predicted. There was famine in all the other lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was food. 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, ²  “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”

41:56 While the famine was over all the earth, ³  Joseph opened the storehouses ⁴  and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.

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¹ tn Heb “began to arrive.”

² tn Heb “to all Egypt.” The name of the country is used by metonymy for the inhabitants.

³ tn Or “over the entire land”; Heb “over all the face of the earth.” The disjunctive clause is circumstantial-temporal to the next clause.

⁴ tc The MT reads “he opened all that was in [or “among”] them.” The translation follows the reading of the LXX and Syriac versions.