Genesis 41:47
New International Version
During the seven years of abundance the land produced plentifully.

New Living Translation
As predicted, for seven years the land produced bumper crops.

English Standard Version
During the seven plentiful years the earth produced abundantly,

Berean Standard Bible
During the seven years of abundance, the land brought forth bountifully.

King James Bible
And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

New King James Version
Now in the seven plentiful years the ground brought forth abundantly.

New American Standard Bible
During the seven years of plenty the land produced abundantly.

NASB 1995
During the seven years of plenty the land brought forth abundantly.

NASB 1977
And during the seven years of plenty the land brought forth abundantly.

Legacy Standard Bible
And during the seven years of plenty the land brought forth abundantly.

Amplified Bible
In the seven abundant years the earth produced handfuls [for each seed planted].

Christian Standard Bible
During the seven years of abundance the land produced outstanding harvests.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
During the seven years of abundance the land produced outstanding harvests.

American Standard Version
And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the land stocked up in granaries in the seven years of plenty.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the land produced, in the seven years of plenty, whole handfuls of corn.

Contemporary English Version
For seven years there were big harvests of grain.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the fruitfulness of the seven years came: and the corm being bound up into sheaves was gathered together into the barns of Egypt.

English Revised Version
And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
During the seven good years the land produced large harvests.

Good News Translation
During the seven years of plenty the land produced abundant crops,

International Standard Version
While bumper crops grew during the seven abundant years,

JPS Tanakh 1917
And in the seven years of plenty the earth brought forth in heaps.

Literal Standard Version
and the land makes in the seven years of plenty by handfuls.

Majority Standard Bible
During the seven years of abundance, the land brought forth bountifully.

New American Bible
During the seven years of plenty, when the land produced abundant crops,

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

New Revised Standard Version
During the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.

New Heart English Bible
During the seven years of abundance the land produced large harvests.

Webster's Bible Translation
And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfulls.

World English Bible
In the seven plenteous years the earth produced abundantly.

Young's Literal Translation
and the land maketh in the seven years of plenty by handfuls.

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Context
The Seven Years of Plenty
46Now Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph left Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout the land of Egypt. 47During the seven years of abundance, the land brought forth bountifully. 48During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.…

Cross References
Genesis 41:29
Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt,

Genesis 41:46
Now Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph left Pharaoh's presence and traveled throughout the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:48
During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.


Treasury of Scripture

And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

From A.

Genesis 26:12
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

Psalm 72:16
There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.

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Genesis 41
1. Pharaoh has two dreams.
9. Joseph interprets them.
33. He gives Pharaoh counsel, and is highly advanced, and married.
46. The seven years of plenty.
50. He begets children.
53. The famine begins.














Verses 47, 48. - And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls (i.e. abundantly). And he (Joseph, through his subordinates) gathered up all the food (i.e. all the portions levied) of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: - men bringing corn into granaries appear upon the monuments at Beni-hassan (Wilkinson, 'Ancient Egyptians,' vol. 1. p. 371, ed. 1878) - the food of the field, which was round about every city (literally, the food of the field of the city, which was in its environs), laid he up in the same (literally, in the midst of it).

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Hebrew
During the seven
בְּשֶׁ֖בַע (bə·še·ḇa‘)
Preposition-b | Number - feminine singular
Strong's 7651: Seven, seven times, a week, an indefinite number

years
שְׁנֵ֣י (šə·nê)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 8141: A year

of abundance,
הַשָּׂבָ֑ע (haś·śā·ḇā‘)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7647: Plenty, satiety

the land
הָאָ֔רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

brought forth
וַתַּ֣עַשׂ (wat·ta·‘aś)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

bountifully.
לִקְמָצִֽים׃ (liq·mā·ṣîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 7062: Closed hand, fist


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