When Famine Erases the Memory of Plenty

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 41:30

Curated by Arthur·Told by Maggid·April 20, 2026

And after them will arise seven years of famine, which will make all the plenty that was in the land of Mizraim to be forgotten; and the famine will consume the inhabitants of the land;

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