Genesis 43:1

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The famine was severe in the land.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

There was a famine in the land. Abram went to Egypt to stay awhile because the famine was severe.

Genesis 18:13

The Lord asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really have a child now that I’m old?’

Genesis 26:1

There was a famine in the land in addition to the earlier one during Abraham’s time. So Isaac went to King Abimelech of the Philistines in Gerar.

Genesis 42:5

Israel’s sons left with the others who were going to buy grain, because there was also famine in Canaan.

Genesis 43:2

When they finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, Israel said to his sons, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”

Genesis 47:4

We have come to live in this land for a while. The famine is so severe in Canaan that there’s no pasture for our flocks. So please let us live in Goshen.”

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is as hot as an oven from the burning heat of starvation.

Deuteronomy 26:5

You will make this formal statement in the presence of the Lord your God: “My ancestors were wandering Arameans. There were only a few of them when they went to Egypt and lived as foreigners. But then they became a great, powerful, and large nation.