Genesis 41:47

47 During the seven years of abundance the land produced plentifully.

Genesis 41:47 in Other Translations

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

47 During the seven plentiful years the earth produced abundantly,

47 As predicted, for seven years the land produced bumper crops.

47 During the next seven years of plenty the land produced bumper crops.

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

47 During the seven good years the land produced large harvests.

47 During the seven years of abundance the land produced outstanding harvests.

47 During the seven years when there was plenty of food, the land produced more than the people needed.

Genesis 41:47 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 41:47

And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by
handfuls.
] Such as the gatherers take up in their hands when reaped, in order to bind up in sheaves: now such was the fruitfulness of the land during the seven years of plenty, that either one stalk produced as many ears as a man could hold in his hand; or one grain produced an handful, as Ben Melech observes; though Onkelos paraphrases the words,

``the inhabitants of the earth in the seven years of plenty gathered even into their treasuries:''

and this they did by the order and direction of Joseph as he passed through the land; what he bought of them they brought, and put into the granaries, as he directed them.

Genesis 41:47 In-Context

45 Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zaphenath-Paneah and gave him Asenath daughter of Potiphera, priest of On, to be his wife. And Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt.

46 Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout Egypt.

47 During the seven years of abundance the land produced plentifully.

48 Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it.

49 Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain, like the sand of the sea; it was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure.

Cross References

• 1. ver 29