Genesis 43:1

Modern English Version

Now the famine was severe in the land.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

Now there was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 18:13

Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Shall I surely bear a child when I am old?’

Genesis 26:1

There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was during the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar.

Genesis 42:5

Thus the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 43:2

When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little food.”

Genesis 47:4

They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for your servants have no pasture for their flocks, because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please allow your servants to dwell in the land of Goshen.”

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is hot as an oven, because of the terrible famine.

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then you must answer and say before the Lord your God, “A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with only a few in number, but there he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.