Genesis 43:1

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Meanwhile, the famine pressed heavily on all the land.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

But a famine occurred in the land. And Abram descended to Egypt, to sojourn there. For famine prevailed over the land.

Genesis 18:13

Then the Lord said to Abraham: "Why did Sarah laugh, saying: 'How can I, an old woman, actually give birth?'

Genesis 26:1

Then, when a famine arose over the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestinians, in Gerar.

Genesis 42:5

And they entered into the land of Egypt with the others who traveled to buy. For the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 43:2

And having consumed the provisions that they had brought out of Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, "Return and buy us a little food."

Genesis 47:4

We came to sojourn in your land, because there is no grass for the flocks of your servants, the famine being very grievous in the land of Canaan. And we petition you that you may order us, your servants, to be in the land of Goshen."

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.

Deuteronomy 26:5

And you shall say, in the sight of the Lord your God: 'The Syrian pursued my father, who descended into Egypt, and he sojourned there in a very small number, and he increased into a great and strong nation and into an innumerable multitude.