Kejadian 41:54

41:54 Then the seven years of famine began, ¹  just as Joseph had predicted. There was famine in all the other lands, but throughout the land of Egypt there was food.

Kejadian 41:56

41:56 While the famine was over all the earth, ²  Joseph opened the storehouses ³  and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.

[41:54]  ¹ tn Heb “began to arrive.”

[41:56]  ² tn Or “over the entire land”; Heb “over all the face of the earth.” The disjunctive clause is circumstantial-temporal to the next clause.

[41:56]  ³ tc The MT reads “he opened all that was in [or “among”] them.” The translation follows the reading of the LXX and Syriac versions.