Genesis 43:1

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

BUT THE hunger and destitution and starvation were very severe and extremely distressing in the land [Canaan].

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down into Egypt to live temporarily, for the famine in the land was oppressive (intense and grievous).

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin glows and is parched as from [the heat of] an oven because of the burning heat of [the fever of] famine.

Genesis 42:5

So the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those who came, for there was hunger and general lack of food in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 18:13

And the Lord asked Abraham, Why did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I really bear a child when I am so old?

Genesis 26:1

AND THERE was a famine in the land, other than the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

Genesis 43:2

And when [the families of Jacob's sons] had eaten up the grain which the men had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, Go again; buy us a little food.

Genesis 47:4

Moreover, they said to Pharaoh, We have come to sojourn in the land, for your servants have no pasture for our flocks, for the famine is very severe in Canaan. So now, we pray you, let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

Deuteronomy 26:5

And you shall say before the Lord your God, A wandering and lost Aramean ready to perish was my father [Jacob], and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there, few in number, and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and numerous.