Genesis 41:57
Good News Translation
People came to Egypt from all over the world to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe everywhere.

New Revised Standard Version
Moreover, all the world came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine became severe throughout the world.

Contemporary English Version
People from all over the world came to Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was so severe in their countries.

New American Bible
Indeed, the whole world came to Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, for famine had gripped the whole world.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.

all countries.

Genesis 42:1,5 And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons: Why are ye careless? . . .

Genesis 50:20 You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.

Deuteronomy 9:28 Lest perhaps the inhabitants of the land, out of which thou hast brought us, say: The Lord could not bring them into the land that he promised them, and he hated them: therefore he brought them out, that he might kill them in the wilderness,

Psalm 105:16,17 And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread. . . .

in all lands.

Genesis 41:54,56 The 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. . . .

Context
The Famine Begins
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. 57And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.
Cross References
Genesis 12:10
And there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.

Genesis 41:56
And 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.

Genesis 42:5
And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.

Genesis 43:1
In the mean time the famine was heavy upon all the land.

Genesis 41:56
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