The famine was very bad in Canaan, so there were many people from Canaan who went to Egypt to buy grain. Among them were the sons of Israel.
Acts 7:11 - Easy To Read Version But all the land of Egypt and of Canaan became dry. It became so dry that food could not grow there. This made the people suffer very much. Our fathers could not find anything to eat. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then there came a famine over all of Egypt and Canaan, with great distress, and our forefathers could find no fodder [for the cattle] or vegetable sustenance [for their households]. [Gen. 41:54, 55; 42:5.] American Standard Version (1901) Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance. Common English Bible A famine came upon all Egypt and Canaan, and great hardship came with it. Our ancestors had nothing to eat. Catholic Public Domain Version Then a famine occurred in all of Egypt and Canaan, and a great tribulation. And our fathers did not find food. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Chanaan, and great tribulation; and our fathers found no food. |
The famine was very bad in Canaan, so there were many people from Canaan who went to Egypt to buy grain. Among them were the sons of Israel.
I will take care of you during the next five years of hunger. So you and your family will not lose everything you own.
They said to Pharaoh, “The time of hunger is very bad in Canaan. There are no fields left with grass for our animals. So we have come to live in this land. We ask you to please let us live in Goshen.”
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