7 years of plenty
1714 BC, lasting 7 years traditional (Jones)
- Passage
- Gen 41:47-53
- Before
- Joseph Promoted in Egypt
Participants
Taking part, as Theographic records them, most often named first.
Places
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Every verse
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Genesis7 verses
- 41:47
During the seven years of abundance, the land brought forth bountifully.
- 41:48
During 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.
- 41:49
So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance, like the sand of the sea, that he stopped keeping track of it; for it was beyond measure.
- 41:50
Before the years of famine arrived, two sons were born to Joseph by Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On.
- 41:51
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”
- 41:52
And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”
- 41:53
When the seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end,