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

¹ Now the famine was severe in the land.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And the famine was sore in the land.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ BUT THE hunger and destitution and starvation were very severe and extremely distressing in the land [Canaan].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And the famine was sore in the land.

Common English Bible

¹ The famine was severe in the land,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Meanwhile, the famine pressed heavily on all the land.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ 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.