⁵⁷ And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was sore in all the earth.

⁵⁴ And 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.

⁵⁶ And 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.

⁵ And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

¹ Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

²⁰ And as for you, ye meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

²⁸ lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because Jehovah was not able to bring them into the land which he promised unto them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

¹⁶ And he called for a famine upon the land; He brake the whole staff of bread.

¹⁷ He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant: