Genesis 47:13 - The Scriptures 1998

¹³ Now there was no bread in all the land, because the scarcity of food was very severe, and the land of Mitsrayim and all the land of Kenaʽ

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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,

Genesis 47:13 Cross References

Genesis 41:36

“And the food shall be for a store for the land for the seven years of scarcity of food which shall be in the land of Mitsrayim, and do not let the land be cut off by the scarcity of food.”

1 Kings 18:5

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Jeremiah 9:12

Who is the wise man, that he understands this? And to whom has the mouth of יהוה  spoken, that he declares it? Why has the land perished, has it been burned up like a wilderness, with none passing through?

Lamentations 4:9

Better off were those pierced by the sword Than those pierced by hunger; For these pine away, Pierced through for lack of the fruits of the field.

Acts 7:11

“Then a scarcity of food and great distress came over all the land of Mitsrayim and Kena‘an, and our fathers found no food.