Genesis 43:1 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ But the scarcity of food 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.

Genesis 43:1 Cross References

Genesis 12:10

And a scarcity of food came to be in the land, and Aḇ

Genesis 18:13

And יהוה  said to Aḇ

Genesis 26:1

And there was a scarcity of food in the land, besides the first scarcity of food which was in the days of Aḇ

Genesis 42:5

And the sons of Yisra’ĕ

Genesis 43:2

And it came to be, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought from Mitsrayim, that their father said to them, “Go back, buy us a little food.”

Genesis 47:4

And they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to dwell in the land, because there is no pasture for your servant’s flocks, for the scarcity of food is severe in the land of Kenaʽ

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burning heat of scarcity of food.

Deuteronomy 26:5

“And you shall answer and say before יהוה  your Elohim, ‘My father was a perishing Aramean, and he went down to Mitsrayim and sojourned there with few men. And there he became a nation, great, mighty, and numerous.