Genesis 47:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe. The land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ [In the course of time] there was no food in all the land, for the famine was distressingly severe, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan hung in doubt and wavered by reason of the hunger (destitution, starvation) of the famine.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

Common English Bible

¹³ There was no food in the land because the famine was so severe. The land of Egypt and the land of Canaan dried up from the famine.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ For in the whole world there was a lack of bread, and a famine had oppressed the land, most of all Egypt and Canaan,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ For in the whole world there was want of bread, and a famine had oppressed the land: more especially of Egypt and Chanaan.

Genesis 47:13 Cross References

Genesis 41:36

That food shall be a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine that are to befall the land of Egypt, so that the land may not perish through the famine.”

1 Kings 18:5

Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the wadis; perhaps we may find grass to keep the horses and mules alive and not lose some of the animals.”

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the Lord spoken, so that they may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

Lamentations 4:9

Happier were those pierced by the sword than those pierced by hunger, whose life drains away, deprived of the produce of the field.

Acts 7:11

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