Genesis 41:57
And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Omnesque provinciæ veniebant in Ægyptum, ut emerent escas, et malum inopiæ temperarent.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ πᾶσαι αἱ χῶραι ἦλθον εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἀγοράζειν πρὸς Ἰωσήφ· ἐπεκράτησεν γὰρ ὁ λιμὸς ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְכָל הָאָ֨רֶץ֙ בָּ֣אוּ מִצְרַ֔יְמָה לִשְׁבֹּ֖ר אֶל יוֹסֵ֑ף כִּֽי חָזַ֥ק הָרָעָ֖ב בְּכָל הָאָֽרֶץ
Haydock's commentary
All provinces in the neighbourhood: for the stores laid up would not have supplied all mankind even for a few months. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Ambrose On the Duties of the Clergy, Chapter XV. Of liberality. To whom it must chiefly be shown, and how men of slender means may show it by giving their service and counsel
74. How much grander it was for Abraham to have recovered his captured son-in-law by his victorious arms, than if he had ransomed him! How much more usefully did holy Joseph help King Pharaoh by his counsel to provide for the future, than if he had offered him money! 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.