Genesis 47:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

1 Kings 18:5

And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go through the land, unto all the fountains of water, and unto all the brooks: peradventure we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.

Jeremiah 9:12

Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it? wherefore is the land and perished burned up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?

Lamentations 4:9

They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.

Acts 7:11

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