Genesis 41:56 BSB — MannaFest

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18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהָרָעָ֣ב	ve.ha.ra.'Av	and the famine	H7458 →
הָיָ֔ה	ha.Yah	it was	H1961 →
עַ֖ל	'al	over	H5921 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
פְּנֵ֣י	pe.Nei	[the] face of	H6440 →
הָאָ֑רֶץ	ha.'A.retz	the land	H776 →
וַיִּפְתַּ֨ח	vai.yif.Tach	and he opened	H6605 →
יוֹסֵ֜ף	yo.Sef	Joseph	H3130 →
אֶֽת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
אֲשֶׁ֤ר	'a.Sher	that	H834 →
בָּהֶם֙	ba.Hem	[was] in <the> them
וַיִּשְׁבֹּ֣ר	vai.yish.Bor	and he bought grain	H7666 →
לְמִצְרַ֔יִם	le.mitz.Ra.yim	to Egypt	H4714 →
וַיֶּחֱזַ֥ק	vai.ye.che.Zak	and it was severe	H2388 →
הָֽרָעָ֖ב	ha.ra.'Av	the famine	H7458 →
בְּאֶ֥רֶץ	be.'E.retz	in [the] land of	H776 →
מִצְרָֽיִם׃	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4714 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 17:26
From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 32:7–8
  Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.
- Genesis 3:20
  And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would be the mother of all the living.
- Malachi 2:10
  Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?
- Romans 5:12–19
  Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
- 1 Corinthians 15:22
  For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
Through
Zechariah 5:3
Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according…
leads to
- Exodus 20:15
  You shall not steal.
- Isaiah 24:6
  Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.
Through
Isaiah 23:17
And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.
leads to
- Nahum 3:4
  because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Genesis 47:14Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh’s palace.Genesis 42:6Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.Genesis 41:57And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.Genesis 45:6For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.Acts 17:26From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.Genesis 47:14–24Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh’s palace.Zechariah 5:3Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.Isaiah 23:17And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.Luke 21:35For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of all the earth.Genesis 41:35Under the authority of Pharaoh, let them collect all the excess food from these good years, that they may come and lay up the grain to be preserved as food in the cities.Genesis 42:19If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.Genesis 41:30but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.

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