Genesis 43:1 - New Revised Standard Version

Now the famine was severe in the land.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And the famine was sore in the land.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

BUT THE hunger and destitution and starvation were very severe and extremely distressing in the land [Canaan].

American Standard Version (1901)

And the famine was sore in the land.

Common English Bible

The famine was severe in the land,

Catholic Public Domain Version

Meanwhile, the famine pressed heavily on all the land.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

In the mean time the famine was heavy upon all the land.

Genesis 43:1 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 12:10

Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 18:13

The Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, and say, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?’

Genesis 26:1

Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to King Abimelech of the Philistines.

Genesis 42:5

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

Genesis 43:2

And when they had eaten up the grain that they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”

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.”

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is black as an oven from the scorching heat of famine.

Deuteronomy 26:5

you shall make this response before the Lord your God: “A wandering Aramean was my ancestor; he went down into Egypt and lived there as an alien, few in number, and there he became a great nation, mighty and populous.