Acts 7:11 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

“Now a great famine occurred all over Egypt and Canaan, causing extreme hardships, and our forefathers did not have enough to live on.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then there came a famine over all of Egypt and Canaan, with great distress, and our forefathers could find no fodder [for the cattle] or vegetable sustenance [for their households]. [Gen. 41:54, 55; 42:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

Common English Bible

A famine came upon all Egypt and Canaan, and great hardship came with it. Our ancestors had nothing to eat.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then a famine occurred in all of Egypt and Canaan, and a great tribulation. And our fathers did not find food.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Chanaan, and great tribulation; and our fathers found no food.

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