Genesis 42:5 BSB — MannaFest

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11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙	vai.ya.Vo.'u	and they came	H935 →
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[the] sons of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
לִשְׁבֹּ֖ר	lish.Bor	to buy grain	H7666 →
בְּת֣וֹךְ	be.Tokh	in among	H8432 →
הַבָּאִ֑ים	ha.ba.'Im	those coming	H935 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
הָיָ֥ה	ha.Yah	it was	H1961 →
הָרָעָ֖ב	ha.ra.'Av	the famine	H7458 →
בְּאֶ֥רֶץ	be.'E.retz	in [the] land of	H776 →
כְּנָֽעַן׃	ke.Na.'an	Canaan	H3667 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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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
Genesis 26:1
Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
leads to
- Genesis 12:10
  Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
- Genesis 25:11
  After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.
- Genesis 21:22–32
  At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.
Through
Acts 11:28
One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)
leads to
- Acts 21:10
  After we had been there several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.
- Acts 18:2
  There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to…
Through
Genesis 12:10
Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
leads to
- Genesis 43:1
  Now the famine was still severe in the land.
Through
Acts 7:11
Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.
leads to
- Genesis 41:54–57
  the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.
- Psalms 105:16
  He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.

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 41:57And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.Genesis 12:10Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.Acts 7:11Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.Genesis 26:1Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.Acts 11:28One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)Genesis 42:3So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.Genesis 43:1Now the famine was still severe in the land.

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