Gen 41:56-57 - Commentary

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Text -- Genesis 41:56-57 (NET)

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41:56 While the famine was over all the earth, Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt. 41:57 People from every country came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.

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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:

· Egypt descendants of Mizraim

· Egyptians descendants of Mizraim

· Joseph the husband of Mary and foster-father of Jesus,a Jewish man from Arimathea in whose grave the body of Jesus was laid,two different men listed as ancestors of Jesus,a man nominated with Matthias to take the place of Judas Iscariot as apostle,a son of Jacob and Rachel; the father of Ephraim and Manasseh and ruler of Egypt,a brother of Jesus; a son of Mary,a man who was a companion of Paul,son of Jacob and Rachel; patriarch of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh,a tribe, actually two tribes named after Joseph's sons, Ephraim and Manasseh,father of Igal, of Issachar, who helped spy out Canaan,son of Asaph the Levite; worship leader under Asaph and King David,a man who put away his heathen wife; an Israelite descended from Binnui,priest and head of the house of Shebaniah under High Priest Joiakim in the time of Nehemiah

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NET Notes: Gen 41:56 The MT reads “he opened all that was in [or “among”] them.” The translation follows the reading of the LXX and Syriac versions...

NET Notes: Gen 41:57 Heb “all the earth,” which refers here (by metonymy) to the people of the earth. Note that the following verb is plural in form, indicatin...

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Text -- Genesis 41:56-57 (NET)

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NET Notes -> Gen 41:56; Gen 41:56; Gen 41:57

NET Notes: Gen 41:56 The MT reads “he opened all that was in [or “among”] them.” The translation follows the reading of the LXX and Syriac versions...

NET Notes: Gen 41:57 Heb “all the earth,” which refers here (by metonymy) to the people of the earth. Note that the following verb is plural in form, indicatin...

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