THEOSISGenesis 41:30Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
After which shall follow other seven years of so great scarcity, that all the abundance before shall be forgotten: for the famine shall consume all the land,
וְ֠קָמוּ שֶׁ֜בַע שְׁנֵ֤י רָעָב֙ אַחֲרֵיהֶ֔ן וְנִשְׁכַּ֥ח כָּל־הַשָּׂבָ֖ע בְּאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם וְכִלָּ֥ה הָרָעָ֖ב אֶת־הָאָֽרֶץ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Gen 47:13For in the whole world there was want of bread, and a famine had oppressed the land, more especially of Egypt and Chanaan;
- Gen 41:54The seven years of scarcity, which Joseph had foretold, began to come: and the famine prevailed in the whole world, but there was bread in all the land of Egypt.
- Ps 105 (104):16
- Jas 5:17Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth. And it rained not for three years and six months.
- Prov 31:7Let them drink, and forget their want, and remember their sorrow no more.
- Gen 41:56And the famine increased daily in all the land: and Joseph opened all the barns, and sold to the Egyptians: for the famine had oppressed them also.
- Gen 41:51And he called the name of the firstborn Manasses, saying: God hath made me to forget all my labours, and my father's house.
- Gen 41:21And yet gave no mark of their being full: but were as lean and ill-favoured as before. I awoke, and then fell asleep again,