Genesis 43:1

And the famine [is] severe in the land;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And the famine was sore in the land.

In Context

2and it comes to pass, when they have finished eating the grain which they brought from Egypt, that their father says to them, “Return, buy for us a little food.”

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Cross References

Genesis 12:10And there is a famine in the land, and Abram goes down toward Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine [is] grievous in the land;

Genesis 41:54and the seven years of famine begin to come, as Joseph said, and famine is in all the lands, but in all the land of Egypt has been bread;

Genesis 41:57and all the earth has come to Egypt, to buy, to Joseph, for the famine was severe in all the earth.

Ecclesiastes 9:1But all this I have laid to my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, [are] in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred does man know, the whole [is] before them.

Acts 7:11And there came a scarcity on all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers were not finding sustenance,

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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