Genesis 41:31
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New International Version (©1984)
The abundance in the land will not be remembered, because the famine that follows it will be so severe.

New Living Translation (©2007)
This famine will be so severe that even the memory of the good years will be erased.

English Standard Version (©2001)
and the plenty will be unknown in the land by reason of the famine that will follow, for it will be very severe.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"So the abundance will be unknown in the land because of that subsequent famine; for it will be very severe.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
People won't remember that there once was plenty of food in the land, because the coming famine will be so severe.

King James Bible
And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.

American King James Version
And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.

American Standard Version
and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine which followeth; for it shall be very grievous.

Bible in Basic English
And men will have no memory of the good time because of the need which will come after, for it will be very bitter.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the greatness of the scarcity shall destroy the greatness of the plenty.

Darby Bible Translation
And the plenty will not be known afterwards in the land by reason of that famine; for it will be very grievous.

English Revised Version
and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine which followeth; for it shall be very grievous.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of the famine following: for it will be very grievous.

World English Bible
and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.

Young's Literal Translation
and the plenty is not known in the land because of that famine afterwards, for it is very grievous.

Geneva Study Bible

And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.

King James Translators' Notes

grievous: Heb. heavy

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

41:9-32 God's time for the enlargement of his people is the fittest time. If the chief butler had got Joseph to be released from prison, it is probable he would have gone back to the land of the Hebrews. Then he had neither been so blessed himself, nor such a blessing to his family, as afterwards he proved. Joseph, when introduced to Pharaoh, gives honour to God. Pharaoh had dreamed that he stood upon the bank of the river Nile, and saw the kine, both the fat ones, and the lean ones, come out of the river. Egypt has no rain, but the plenty of the year depends upon the overflowing of the river Nile. See how many ways Providence has of dispensing its gifts; yet our dependence is still the same upon the First Cause, who makes every creature what it is to us, be it rain or river. See to what changes the comforts of this life are subject. We cannot be sure that to-morrow shall be as this day, or next year as this. We must learn how to want, as well as how to abound. Mark the goodness of God in sending the seven years of plenty before those of famine, that provision might be made. The produce of the earth is sometimes more, and sometimes less; yet, take one with another, he that gathers much, has nothing over; and he that gathers little, has no lack, Ex 16:18. And see the perishing nature of our worldly enjoyments. The great harvests of the years of plenty were quite lost, and swallowed up in the years of famine; and that which seemed very much, yet did but just serve to keep the people alive. There is bread which lasts to eternal life, which it is worth while to labour for. They that make the things of this world their good things, will find little pleasure in remembering that they have received them.


Genesis 41:30 and after them seven years of famine will come, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will ravage the land.
Genesis 41:32 "Now as for the repeating of the dream to Pharaoh twice, it means that the matter is determined by God, and God will quickly bring it about. (NASB ©1995)

Abundance Afterwards Bitter Famine Follow Followeth Following Follows Good Grievous Memory Need Plenty Reason Remembered Severe Subsequent Time Unknown

And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous.

the plenty. It is well known, that in Egypt there is scarcely any rain, the country depending for its fertility upon the overflowing of the Nile; and that the fertility is in proportion to the duration and quality of the overflow, in order to saturate the land and prepare for the seed. Pliny has given a scale, by which the plenty or dearth may ascertained; which may be considered as perfectly correct. The ordinary height of the inundations is 16 cubits. When the waters are lower than this standard, they do not overflow the whole ground; when above this standard they are too long in running off. In the first case, the ground is not saturated; by the second, the waters are detained so long on the ground that seed-time is lost. The province marks both. If it rise only 12 cubits, a famine is the consequence; at 13 hunger prevails; 14 produces general rejoicing; 15 perfect security; and 16 all the luxuries of life.

grievous. Heb. heavy. 1Sa 5:6 Isa 24:20

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