Genesis 12:10 - Revised Version 1885

¹⁰ And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down into Egypt to live temporarily, for the famine in the land was oppressive (intense and grievous).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ When a famine struck the land, Abram went down toward Egypt to live as an immigrant since the famine was so severe in the land.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ But a famine occurred in the land. And Abram descended to Egypt, to sojourn there. For famine prevailed over the land.

Genesis 12:10 Cross References

Genesis 41:56

And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:57

And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because the famine was sore in all the earth.

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 47:13

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.

2 Samuel 21:1

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.

2 Kings 4:38

And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.

2 Kings 6:25

And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

Psalm 105:13

And they went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.

Psalm 107:34

A fruitful land into a salt desert, For the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Psalm 34:19

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: But the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Jeremiah 14:1

The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

John 16:33

These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Acts 14:22

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many tribulations we must enter into the kingdom of God.

Acts 7:11

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

Ruth 1:1

And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.