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Genesis 41:48

WEB

48He gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities. He stored food in each city from the fields around that city.

KJV

48And 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.

BSB

48During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.

FBV

48He collected all the food during the seven good years, and he stored the grain produced in the local fields in each town.

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Book of Genesis Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) - BibleProject

Extra References

Genesis 41:34-36

34Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years. 35Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and store grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it. 36The food will be to supply the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; so that the land will not perish through the famine.”


Genesis 47:21

21As for the people, he moved them to the cities from one end of the border of Egypt even to the other end of it.