OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 13

Genesis 47:13

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There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

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THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Genesis 47:13 in context

Genesis 47:10–16

10

Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

11

Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.

12

Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all of his father’s household with bread, according to the sizes of their families.

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There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

14

Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.

15

When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, “Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails.”

16

Joseph said, “Give me your livestock; and I will give you food for your livestock, if your money is gone.”

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