Genesis 41:31
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The abundance in the land will not be remembered, because the famine that follows it will be so severe.
Read Genesis 41:31 Using Other Translations
And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.
and the plenty will be unknown in the land by reason of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe.
This famine will be so severe that even the memory of the good years will be erased.
What does Genesis 41:31 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Genesis 41:31
And the plenty shall not be known in the land, by reason
of
that famine following
That is, before it would be over; otherwise the former plenty was
in some measure known by the stores of provisions laid up in the
seven years of it, and which were brought forth when the famine
became very pressing; but by that time, and before the seven
years of it were ended, there were no traces of the foregoing
plenty to be observed: for it [shall be] very
grievous;
as it was both in Egypt and in all the countries round about.
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