Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
And the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
And the famine was severe 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 moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for your servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is severe 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 upon the land: he broke every staff of bread.