Acts 7:11

Then a famine spread over the whole of Egypt and Canaan, causing great distress, and our ancestors could find no food.

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In The King James Version

Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

In Context

10and delivered him out of all his troubles, and enabled him to win favour and show wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him Governor of Egypt and of his whole household.

12Hearing, however, that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob sent our ancestors there on their first visit.

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Cross References

Genesis 42:5So the sons of Jacob went among others to buy grain, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 45:5Do not be troubled nor angry with yourselves that you sold me here, because God sent me before you to preserve life.

Genesis 47:13There was no bread in all the land; since the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.

Matthew Henry on Acts 7:2-17

Stephen's Address. 1 Then said the high priest, Are these things so? 2 And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran, 3 And said unto him, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and come into the land which I shall show thee. 4 Then came he out of the land of the Chaldæans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell. 5… Read the whole commentary →

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