And every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, because the famine was severe over all the earth.
Observe here, I. The building of Joseph's family in the birth of two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim, Gen 41:50-52. In the names he gave them, he owned the divine Providence giving this happy turn to his affairs, 1. He was made to forget his misery, Job 11:16.
Commenting on Genesis 41:46-57
The famine was sore in all lands--that is, the lands contiguous to Egypt--Canaan, Syria, and Arabia. Next: Genesis Chapter 42
All countries came into Egypt - to buy - As there had not been a sufficiency of rains, vapours, etc., to swell the Nile, to effect a proper inundation in Egypt, the same cause would produce drought, and consequently scarcity, in all the neighboring countries; and this may be all that is intended in the text. 1.