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Genesis 41:36

American Standard Version

And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

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Genesis 41:36 in other translations

The food will be to supply the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; so that the land will not perish through the famine.”

Genesis 41:36 · World English Bible

Genesis 41:36 in context

  1. 34Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.
  2. 35And let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
  3. 36And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.
  4. 37And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
  5. 38And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is?