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54 Then the seven years of famine began,[a] just as Joseph had predicted. There was famine in all the other lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was food. 55 When all the land of Egypt experienced the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh said to all the people of Egypt,[b] “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 41:54 tn Heb “began to arrive.”
  2. Genesis 41:55 tn Heb “to all Egypt.” The name of the country is used by metonymy for the inhabitants.