Genesis 41:57

41:57 People from every country ¹  came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the famine was severe throughout the earth.

Genesis 42:5

42:5 So Israel’s sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, ²  for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan.

[41:57]  ¹ tn Heb “all the earth,” which refers here (by metonymy) to the people of the earth. Note that the following verb is plural in form, indicating that the inhabitants of the earth are in view.

[42:5]  ² tn Heb “in the midst of the coming ones.”