Genesis 47:13

Good News Translation

The famine was so severe that there was no food anywhere, and the people of Egypt and Canaan became weak with hunger.

Cross References

Genesis 41:36

The food will be a reserve supply for the country during the seven years of famine which are going to come on Egypt. In this way the people will not starve.”

1 Kings 18:5

Ahab said to Obadiah, “Let us go and look at every spring and every stream bed in the land to see if we can find enough grass to keep the horses and mules alive. Maybe we won't have to kill any of our animals.”

Jeremiah 9:12

I asked, “Lord, why is the land devastated and dry as a desert, so that no one travels through it? Who is wise enough to understand this? To whom have you explained it so that they can tell others?”

Lamentations 4:9

Those who died in the war were better off than those who died later, who starved slowly to death, with no food to keep them alive.

Acts 7:11

Then there was a famine all over Egypt and Canaan, which caused much suffering. Our ancestors could not find any food,