Acts 7:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

Acts 7:11 Cross References

Genesis 42:5

And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 43:1

And the famine was sore in the land.

Genesis 45:11

and there will I nourish thee; for there are yet five years of famine; lest thou come to poverty, thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast.

Genesis 47:4

And they said unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants' flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

Psalm 105:16

And he called for a famine upon the land; He brake the whole staff of bread.