Genesis 43:1 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹ Now the famine in the land was severe.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ And the famine was sore in the land.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ BUT THE hunger and destitution and starvation were very severe and extremely distressing in the land [Canaan].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ And the famine was sore in the land.

Common English Bible

¹ The famine was severe in the land,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Meanwhile, the famine pressed heavily on all the land.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ In the mean time the famine was heavy upon all the land.

Genesis 43:1 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 12:10

There was a famine in the land,  so Abram went down to Egypt to stay there for a while because the famine in the land was severe.

Genesis 18:13

But the Lord asked Abraham, ‘Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Can I really have a baby when I’m old? ’

Genesis 26:1

There was another famine in the land in addition to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time.  And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

Genesis 42:5

The sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 43:2

When they had used up the grain they had brought back from Egypt, their father said to them, ‘Go back and buy us a little food.’

Genesis 47:4

And they said to Pharaoh, ‘We have come to stay in the land for a while because there is no grazing land for your servants’ sheep, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe.  So now, please let your servants settle in the land of Goshen.’

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin is as hot  as an oven from the ravages of hunger.

Deuteronomy 26:5

You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramean.  He went down to Egypt with a few people and resided there as a foreigner.  There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.