Genesis 43:1

But the famine prevailed in the land.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 corn which they had brought out of 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, because the famine prevailed in the land.

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

Genesis 41:57And all countries came to Egypt to buy of Joseph, for the famine prevailed in all the earth.

Ecclesiastes 9:1I saw that the righteous, and the wise, 1 And their works, are in the hand of God: 1 Yea, there is no man that knows either love or hatred, 1 Though all are before their face. 1

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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