⁵³ The seven years of ·good crops [plenty] came to an end in the land of Egypt. ⁵⁴ Then the seven years of ·hunger [famine] began, just as Joseph had said. In all the lands people had ·nothing to eat [famine], but in Egypt there was ·food [bread]. ⁵⁵ The ·time of hunger [famine] became terrible in all of Egypt, and the people cried to ·the king [^LPharaoh] for food. He said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”

⁵⁶ The ·hunger [famine] was ·everywhere in that part of the world [^Lover all the face of the earth]. And Joseph opened ·the storehouses [^Leverything that was in them] and sold grain to the people of Egypt, because the ·time of hunger [famine] became ·terrible [severe] in Egypt. ⁵⁷ And all the people in that part of the world came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain because the ·hunger [famine] was ·terrible [severe] everywhere in ·that part of the [^Lthe] world.