Acts 7:11 - Modern English Version

¹¹ “Then a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan with great affliction, and our fathers found no sustenance.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ 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

¹¹ 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)

¹¹ Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

Common English Bible

¹¹ A famine came upon all Egypt and Canaan, and great hardship came with it. Our ancestors had nothing to eat.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Then a famine occurred in all of Egypt and Canaan, and a great tribulation. And our fathers did not find food.

Acts 7:11 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 42:5

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

Genesis 43:1

Now the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 45:11

I will provide for you there, for there are still five years of famine to come, lest you and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.” ’

Genesis 47:4

They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for your servants have no pasture for their flocks, because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please allow your servants to dwell in the land of Goshen.”

Psalm 105:16

Moreover He called for a famine upon the land; He broke the whole supply of bread.