Genesis 41:56

Attributed to Jörg Breu the Younger, Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh, c. 1534–1547 · Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0Attributed to Jörg Breu the Younger, Joseph Interpreting the Dreams of Pharaoh, c. 1534–1547, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Genesis 41:56 (WEB)
The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

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Ambrose of Milan, On the Duties of the Clergy II.15Book II
“For money would not have bought back the fruitfulness of any one state; whilst he by his foresight kept the famine for five years from the whole of Egypt.” — editor's note: Gen. xli. 53–57.
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1 Timothy 5:16
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.15.
Genesis 14:16
Cited together in On the Duties of the Clergy II.15.

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