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Genesis 41:56

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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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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, sustained by the Nile’s fertile floodplain, was the center of Joseph’s grain

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Genesis 41:56 mentions Egypt, Heliopolis and Nile.

Egypt · Ricardo Liberato
Heliopolis · Neithsabes
Nile · René Hourdry

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