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Genesis 41:47 β€” Meaning and Application

King James Version

β€œAnd in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.”

Genesis 41:47

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45

And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over {all} the land of Egypt. {Zaphnathpaaneah: which in the Coptic signifies, A revealer of secrets, or, The man to whom secrets are revealed} {priest: or, prince}

46

And Joseph {was} thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

47

And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

48

And 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.

49

And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for {it was} without number.

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