Now the famine was severe in the land.

The earth was ruined in the sight of God; the earth was filled with violence.

But Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, in the land of Canaan.

This food should be held in storage for the land in preparation for the seven years of famine that will occur throughout the land of Egypt. In this way the land will survive the famine.”

Now Joseph was the ruler of the country, the one who sold grain to all the people of the country. Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

So Joseph settled his father and his brothers. He gave them territory in the land of Egypt, in the best region of the land, the land of Rameses, just as Pharaoh had commanded.

But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away because of the famine.

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created – when the Lord God made the earth and heavens.

Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to stay for a while because the famine was severe.

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

“The man, the lord of the land, spoke harshly to us and treated us as if we were spying on the land.

Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.

The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them.

So Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for quite some time.

Abraham bowed before the local people

During the seven years of abundance the land produced large, bountiful harvests.

God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: cattle, creeping things, and wild animals, each according to its kind.” It was so.

God saw the earth, and indeed it was ruined, for all living creatures on the earth were sinful.

So God said to Noah, “I have decided that all living creatures must die, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. Now I am about to destroy them and the earth.