Chuàngshìjì 41:36

36 Suǒ jīxù de liángshi kĕyǐ fángbeì Āijí dì jiānglái de qī gè huāng nián , miǎndé zhè dì beì jīhuāng suǒ miè .

Chuàngshìjì 41:36 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 41:36

And that food shall be for store to the land
A deposit in the said cities, to be brought forth and used in a time of public distress; the Targum of Jonathan is, it

``shall be hidden in a cave in the earth:''

against the seven years of famine which shall be in the land of Egypt:
and so be a supply to the inhabitants of the land, when they should be sore pressed with a famine, and know not what to do, nor where to go for food: that the land perish not through the famine;
that is, that the people of the land perish not, as the above Targum, which, without such a provision, they would have been in great danger of perishing. Justin, an Heathen writer ^F17, confirms this account of the advice of Joseph, of whom he says, that

``he was exceeding sagacious of things wonderful, and first found out the meaning of dreams; and nothing of right, divine or human, seemed unknown to him, so that he could foresee the barrenness of land many years beforehand; and all Egypt would have perished with the famine, if the king, by his advice, had not commanded an edict, that the fruits of the earth, for many years, should be preserved.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 E. Trogo, l. 36. c. 32.

Chuàngshìjì 41:36 In-Context

34 Fǎlǎo dàng zhèyàng xíng , yòu paì guān yuán guǎnlǐ zhè dì . dàng qī gè fēng nián de shíhou , zhēngshōu Āijí dì de wǔ fèn ...zhīyī ,

35 Jiào tāmen bǎ jiānglái fēng nián yīqiè de liángshi jùliǎn qǐlai , jīxù wǔgǔ , shōu cún zaì gè chéng lǐ zuò shíwù , guīyú fǎlǎo de shǒu xià .

36 Suǒ jīxù de liángshi kĕyǐ fángbeì Āijí dì jiānglái de qī gè huāng nián , miǎndé zhè dì beì jīhuāng suǒ miè .

37 Fǎlǎo hé tā yīqiè chénpú dōu yǐ zhè shì wèi miào .

38 Fǎlǎo duì chénpú shuō , xiàng zhèyàng de rén , yǒu shén de líng zaì tā lǐtou , wǒmen qǐnéng zhǎo de zhe ne ,