Genesis 43:1 - The Scriptures 2009

¹ But the scarcity of food was severe in the land.

More versions

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

And a scarcity of food came to be in the land, and Aḇram went down to Mitsrayim to dwell there, for the scarcity of food was severe in the land.

Genesis 18:13

And יהוה said to Aḇraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I truly have a child, since I am old?’

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 Aḇraham. And Yitsḥaq went to Aḇimeleḵ, sovereign of the Philistines, in Gerar.

Genesis 42:5

And the sons of Yisra’ĕl went to buy grain among those who journeyed, for the scarcity of food was in the land of Kena‛an.

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 servants’ flocks, for the scarcity of food is severe in the land of Kena‛an. And now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”

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.