Acts 7:11 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹¹ Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ 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

¹¹ 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)

¹¹ Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

Common English Bible

¹¹ A famine came upon all Egypt and Canaan, and great hardship came with it. Our ancestors had nothing to eat.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Then a famine occurred in all of Egypt and Canaan, and a great tribulation. And our fathers did not find food.

Acts 7:11 Cross References

Psalm 105:16

Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.

Genesis 45:11

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

Genesis 43:1

And the famine was sore in the land.

Genesis 42:5

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

Genesis 47:4

They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their 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.