Genesis 43:1

Meanwhile, the famine pressed heavily on all the land.

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In The King James Version

And the famine was sore in the land.

In Context

2And having consumed the provisions that they had brought out of Egypt, Jacob said to his sons, “Return and buy us a little food.”

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Cross References

Genesis 12:10But a famine occurred in the land. And Abram descended to Egypt, to sojourn there. For famine prevailed over the land.

Genesis 41:54the seven years of destitution, which Joseph had predicted, began to arrive. And the famine prevailed throughout the whole world, but there was bread in all the land of Egypt.

Genesis 41:57And all the provinces came to Egypt, to buy food and to temper the misfortune of their destitution.

Ecclesiastes 9:1I have drawn all these things through my heart, so that I might carefully understand. There are just men as well as wise men, and their works are in the hand of God. And yet a man does not know so much as whether he is worthy of love or of hatred.

Acts 7:11Then a famine occurred in all of Egypt and Canaan, and a great tribulation. And our fathers did not find food.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 43:1

Here the story of Joseph's brethren is carried on, and very particularly related. I. Their melancholy parting with their father Jacob in Canaan, ver. 1-14 . II. Their pleasant meeting with Joseph in Egypt, ver. 15 , &c. For on this occasion nothing occurs there but what is agreeable and pleasant. Read the whole commentary →

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