Catholic Public Domain Version
"And the fertility of the seven years arrived. And when the grain fields were reduced to sheaves, these were gathered into the storehouses of Egypt. "
— Genesis 41:47, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.”
“And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. ”
“In the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth abundantly.”
“During the seven years of abundance the land produced large, bountiful harvests.”
“And the fruitfulness of the seven years came: and the corn being bound up into sheaves, was gathered together into the barns of Egypt.”
“Now in the seven good years the earth gave fruit in masses.”
“And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.”
Likewise, the king said to Joseph: “I am Pharaoh: apart from your authority, no one will move hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.”
And he changed his name and called him, in the Egyptian tongue: ‘Savior of the world.’ And he gave him as a wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis. And so Joseph went out into the land of Egypt.
(Now he was thirty years old when he stood in the sight of king Pharaoh.) And he traveled throughout the regions of Egypt.
And the fertility of the seven years arrived. And when the grain fields were reduced to sheaves, these were gathered into the storehouses of Egypt.
And now all the abundance of grain was stored away in every city.
And there was such a great abundance of wheat that it was comparable to the sands of the sea, and its bounty exceeded all measure.
Then, before the famine arrived, Joseph had two sons born, whom Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, priest of Heliopolis, bore for him.