Genesis 41:55

Genesis chapter 41 · verse 55 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.

Context

v.54And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said: and there was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

v.55This passage

v.56And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Kings 6:25

    And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silver.

  • Lamentations 4:3

    Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

  • Genesis 41:40

    thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

  • Colossians 1:19

    For it was the good pleasure of the Father that in him should all the fulness dwell;

  • Psalms 105:20

    The king sent and loosed him; Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

  • Jeremiah 14:1

    The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.