Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Acts 7:11 - English Standard Version 2016 Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food. 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. |
Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
There I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.’
They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”