Acts 7:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Now there came a famine throughout Egypt and Canaan and great suffering, and our ancestors could find no food.

Cross References

Psalm 105:16

When he summoned famine against the land and cut off every supply of bread,

Genesis 45:11

I will provide for you there, since there are five more years of famine to come, so that you and your household and all that you have will not come to poverty.’

Genesis 43:1

Now the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 42:5

Thus the sons of Israel were among the people who came to buy grain, for the famine had reached the land of Canaan.

Genesis 47:4

They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to reside as aliens in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, we ask you, let your servants settle in the land of Goshen.”