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Genesis 41:54

Context
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.

Genesis 41:57

Context
41:57 People from every country 2  came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.

1 tn Heb “began to arrive.”

2 tn Heb “all the earth,” which refers here (by metonymy) to the people of the earth. Note that the following verb is plural in form, indicating that the inhabitants of the earth are in view.



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