Genesis 43:1

New International Version

Now the famine was still severe in the land.

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

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

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger.

Genesis 42:5

So Israel’s sons were among those who went to buy grain, for there was famine in the land of Canaan also.

Genesis 18:13

Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’

Genesis 26:1

Now there was a famine in the land—besides the previous famine in Abraham’s time—and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar.

Genesis 43:2

So when they had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”

Genesis 47:4

They also said to him, “We have come to live here for a while, because the famine is severe in Canaan and your servants’ flocks have no pasture. So now, please let your servants settle in Goshen.”

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then you shall declare before the Lord your God: “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous.