Genesis 41:35

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Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

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Canaan in the Patriarchal AgeCanaan during the patriarchal period, before the Israelite conquest.

The Ancient Near East (Fertile Crescent)The ancient Near East and Fertile Crescent, from Mesopotamia to Egypt, the world of the patriarchs.

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Egypt was the kingdom over which Pharaoh ruled, and its Nile-fed agriculture made large-scale grain storage possible during the predicted years of abundance. Heliopolis, a major Egyptian city associated with the sun god, is not named in the verse itself but was near the administrative setting of Joseph’s later authority.

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Genesis 41:35 mentions Egypt, Heliopolis and Nile.

Photo of Egypt — Egypt · Ricardo Liberato

Photo of Heliopolis — Heliopolis · Neithsabes