“The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 41 contains 57 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.