Glancing Through the Scriptures!

 GENESIS 47:15-22

Joseph and the famine.

(15)  And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came into Joseph, and said,  Give us bread:  for why should we die in thy presence?  for the money faileth.

(16)  And Joseph said,  Give your cattle, and I will give you for your cattle if money fail.

(17)  And they brought their cattle to Joseph:  and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses;  and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.

(18)  When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him,  We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent, my lord also hath our herds of cattle;  there is not aught left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:

(19)  Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land?  buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants to Pharaoh:  and give us seed, that we may live, and not die that the land be not desolate.

(20)  And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh;  for the Egyptians sold every man his field because the famine prevailed over them:  so the land became Pharaoh's.

(21)  And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

(22)  Only the land of the rest bought he not;  for the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them:  wherefore they sold not their lands.

ADDENDUM

Strangers can be powerful instruments of blessings to you!  Is there a stranger in your household today?