Event
7 years of plenty
- Date:
- 1714 BC
- Duration:
- 7Y
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Preceded by 1
Followed by 3
Participants 2
Locations 1
Described in 7
- Genesis 41:47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.
- Genesis 41:48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
- Genesis 41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for it was without number.
- Genesis 41:50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.
- Genesis 41:51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.
- Genesis 41:52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
- Genesis 41:53 And the seven years of plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.