The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Yosef opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
Genesis 12:10 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) There was a famine in the land. Avram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down into Egypt to live temporarily, for the famine in the land was oppressive (intense and grievous). American Standard Version (1901) And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land. Common English Bible When a famine struck the land, Abram went down toward Egypt to live as an immigrant since the famine was so severe in the land. Catholic Public Domain Version But a famine occurred in the land. And Abram descended to Egypt, to sojourn there. For famine prevailed over the land. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And there came a famine in the country. And Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there; for the famine was very grievous in the land. |
The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Yosef opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.
All countries came into Egypt, to Yosef, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
The sons of Yisra'el came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Kena`an.
There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Kena`an fainted by reason of the famine.
There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, It is for Sha'ul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Giv`onim.
Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.
There was a great famine in Shomron: and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty [pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five [pieces] of silver.
They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him out of them all.
I have told you these things, that in me you may have shalom. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.*
confirming the souls of the talmidim, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.
Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Kena`an, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
It happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Beit-Lechem-Yehudah went to sojourn in the country of Mo'av, he, and his wife, and his two sons.