Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
And the famine was sore in the land.
And there will I nourish you; for yet there are five years of famine; lest you, and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.
They said morever to Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for your servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
Moreover he called for a famine on the land: he broke the whole staff of bread.