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So the first seven years passed, years of plenty for Egypt; (Genesis 41, 53)
and now, as Joseph had prophesied, seven years of scarcity began; famine reigned all over the world, but everywhere in Egypt there was bread to be had. (Genesis 41, 54)
When food grew scarce, there was ever a cry made to Pharao for bread, and still he would answer, Betake yourselves to Joseph, do what he bids you. (Genesis 41, 55)
And Joseph, as the famine grew daily worse everywhere, opened the storehouses and made the Egyptians, too, buy their corn, for they were as hungry as the rest. (Genesis 41, 56)
Soon the whole world was coming to Egypt and buying food to relieve its want. (Genesis 41, 57)
The news that there was corn to be bought in Egypt reached Jacob among the rest; and he said to his sons, What means this lethargy? (Genesis 42, 1)
They tell me there is corn for sale in Egypt; why do you not go down there, and buy enough for us to live on, instead of waiting till we starve? (Genesis 42, 2)
So ten of Joseph’s brethren went down into Egypt to buy corn there; (Genesis 42, 3)
So they made their way into Egypt with others who were going there to buy; the whole of Chanaan was by now famine-stricken. (Genesis 42, 5)
Egypt was under the control of Joseph: it was at his discretion that corn was sold to foreign nations. And when his brethren came and did him reverence, (Genesis 42, 6)
All this Joseph understood, although they did not suspect it (he always spoke to them through an interpreter); (Genesis 42, 23)
As for their father Jacob, he told them, You have made a childless man of me; Joseph is dead, Simeon a prisoner, and you would rob me of Benjamin too; it is I who have to bear all this trouble. (Genesis 42, 36)
