Genesis 41:30
Good News Translation
After that, there will be seven years of famine, and all the good years will be forgotten, because the famine will ruin the country.

New Revised Standard Version
After them there will arise seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt; the famine will consume the land.

Contemporary English Version
but that will be followed by seven years when there won't be enough. The good years of plenty will be forgotten, and everywhere in Egypt people will be starving.

New American Bible
but seven years of famine will rise up after them, when all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. When the famine has exhausted the land,

Douay-Rheims Bible
After which shall follow other seven years of so great scarcity, that all the abundance before shall be forgotten: for the famine shall consume all the land,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

After which shall follow other seven years of so great scarcity, that all the abundance before shall be forgotten: for the famine shall consume all the land,

seven years.

Genesis 41:27,54 And the seven lean and thin kine that came up after them, and the seven thin ears that were blasted with the burning wind, are seven years of famine to come: . . .

2 Samuel 24:13 And when Gad was come to David, he told him, saying: Either seven years of famine shall come to thee in thy land: or thou shalt flee three months before thy adversaries, and they shall pursue thee: or for three days there shall be a pestilence in thy land. Now therefore deliberate, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

1 Kings 17:1 And Elias the Thesbite, of the inhabitants of Galaad, said to Achab: As the Lord liveth, the God of Israel, in whose sight I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to the words of my mouth.

2 Kings 8:1 And Eliseus spoke to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying: Arise, and go thou, and thy household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst find: for the Lord hath called a famine, and it shall come upon the land seven years.

Luke 4:25 In truth I say to You, there were many widows in the days of Elias in Israel, when heaven was shut up three years and six months, when there was a great famine throughout all the earth.

James 5:17 Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth. And it rained not for three years and six months.

shall be.

Genesis 41:21,51 And yet gave no mark of their being full: but were as lean and ill-favoured as before. I awoke, and then fell asleep again, . . .

Proverbs 31:7 Let them drink, and forget their want, and remember their sorrow no more.

Isaiah 65:16 In which he that is blessed upon the earth, shall be blessed in God, amen: and he that sweareth in the earth, shall swear by God, amen: because the former distresses are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.

consume.

Genesis 47:13 For in the whole world there was want of bread, and a famine had oppressed the land, more especially of Egypt and Chanaan;

Psalm 105:16 And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.

Context
Joseph Interprets Pharaoh's Dreams
29Behold, there shall come seven years of great plenty in the whole land of Egypt: 30After which shall follow other seven years of so great scarcity, that all the abundance before shall be forgotten: for the famine shall consume all the land,31And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty.…
Cross References
Genesis 41:31
And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty.

Genesis 41:54
The seven years of scarcity, which Joseph had foretold, began to come: and the famine prevailed in the whole world, but there was bread in all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:56
And the famine increased daily in all the land: and Joseph opened all the barns, and sold to the Egyptians: for the famine had oppressed them also.

Genesis 47:13
For in the whole world there was want of bread, and a famine had oppressed the land, more especially of Egypt and Chanaan;

Psalm 105:16
And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.

Genesis 41:29
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