Genesis 43:1

And the famine was grievous in the land.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

And the famine was sore in the land.

In Context

2And it came to pass, when they had finished eating the grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their father said to them, Go again, buy us a little food.

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Cross References

Genesis 12:10And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was grievous in the land.

Genesis 41:54and the seven years of the dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said. And there was dearth in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

Genesis 41:57And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph, to buy [grain], because the famine was grievous on the whole earth.

Ecclesiastes 9:1For all this I laid to my heart and [indeed] to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.

Acts 7:11But a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, and our fathers found no 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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