Acts 7:11

New International Reader's Version

“There was not enough food for all Egypt and Canaan. This brought great suffering. Jacob and his sons couldn’t find food.

Cross References

Genesis 42:5

Israel’s sons were among the people who went to buy grain. There wasn’t enough food in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 43:1

There still wasn’t enough food anywhere in the land.

Genesis 45:11

There I will provide everything you need. There are still five years to come when there won’t be enough food. If you don’t come down here, you and your family and everyone who belongs to you will lose everything.” ’

Genesis 47:4

They also said to him, “We’ve come to live in Egypt for a while. There isn’t enough food anywhere in Canaan. There isn’t any grass for our flocks. So please let us live in Goshen.”

Psalm 105:16

He made the people in the land go hungry. He destroyed all their food supplies.