Genesis 43:1 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Now the famine was severe in the land.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And the famine was sore in the land.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

BUT THE hunger and destitution and starvation were very severe and extremely distressing in the land [Canaan].

American Standard Version (1901)

And the famine was sore in the land.

Common English Bible

The famine was severe in the land,

Catholic Public Domain Version

Meanwhile, the famine pressed heavily on all the land.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

In the mean time the famine was heavy upon all the land.

Genesis 43:1 Cross References

Genesis 12:10

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 18:13

The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’

Genesis 26:1

Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

Genesis 42:5

Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 43:2

And when they had eaten the grain which they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little food.”

Genesis 47:4

They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land; for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan; and now, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is hot as an oven with the burning heat of famine.

Deuteronomy 26:5

“And you shall make response before the Lord your God, ‘A wandering Aramean was my father; and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number; and there he became a nation, great, mighty, and populous.