Acts 7:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ Now there came a famine throughout Egypt and Canaan and great suffering, and our ancestors could find no food.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ 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

Thus the sons of Israel were among the people who came to buy grain, for the famine had reached the land of Canaan.

Genesis 43:1

Now the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 45:11

I will provide for you there, since there are five more years of famine to come, so that you and your household and all that you have will not come to poverty.’

Genesis 47:4

They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to reside as aliens in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, we ask you, let your servants settle in the land of Goshen.”

Psalm 105:16

When he summoned famine against the land and cut off every supply of bread,