Kejadian 43:1

The Second Journey to Egypt

43:1 Now the famine was severe in the land. ¹ 

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.

Kejadian 7:10

7:10 And after seven days the floodwaters engulfed the earth. ⁴ 

Kejadian 7:17

7:17 The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

Kejadian 47:13

47:13 But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away ⁵  because of the famine.

Kejadian 19:29

19:29 So when God destroyed ⁶  the cities of the region, ⁷  God honored ⁸  Abraham’s request. He removed Lot ⁹  from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed ¹⁰  the cities Lot had lived in.

Kejadian 41:30

41:30 But seven years of famine will occur ¹¹  after them, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will devastate ¹²  the land.

[43:1]  ¹ tn The disjunctive clause gives supplemental information that is important to the storyline.

[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.

[7:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “came upon.”

[47:13]  ⁵ tn The verb לַהַה (lahah, = לָאָה, la’ah) means “to faint, to languish”; it figuratively describes the land as wasting away, drooping, being worn out.

[19:29]  ⁶ tn The construction is a temporal clause comprised of the temporal indicator, an infinitive construct with a preposition, and the subjective genitive.

[19:29]  ⁷ tn Or “of the plain”; Heb “of the circle,” referring to the “circle” or oval area of the Jordan Valley.

[19:29]  ⁸ tn Heb “remembered,” but this means more than mental recollection here. Abraham’s request (Gen 18:23-32) was that the Lord not destroy the righteous with the wicked. While the requisite minimum number of righteous people (ten, v. 32) needed for God to spare the cities was not found, God nevertheless rescued the righteous before destroying the wicked.

[19:29]  sn God showed Abraham special consideration because of the covenantal relationship he had established with the patriarch. Yet the reader knows that God delivered the “righteous” (Lot’s designation in 2 Pet 2:7) before destroying their world – which is what he will do again at the end of the age.

[19:29]  ⁹ sn God’s removal of Lot before the judgment is paradigmatic. He typically delivers the godly before destroying their world.

[19:29]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the overthrow when [he] overthrew.”

[41:30]  ¹¹ tn The perfect with the vav consecutive continues the time frame of the preceding participle, which has an imminent future nuance here.

[41:30]  ¹² tn The Hebrew verb כָּלָה (kalah) in the Piel stem means “to finish, to destroy, to bring an end to.” The severity of the famine will ruin the land of Egypt.