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Genesis 41:53

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The seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

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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 land ruled by Pharaoh where Joseph’s God-given administration had stored grain during the seven plentiful years. Heliopolis, likely associated with Joseph’s marriage into an Egyptian priestly family, and the Nile, Egypt’s life-sustaining river, form the broader setting in which this abundance and coming famine unfolded.

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Genesis 41:53 mentions Egypt, Heliopolis and Nile.

Egypt · Ricardo Liberato
Heliopolis · Neithsabes
Nile · René Hourdry

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