“All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.”

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.