Genesis 43:1

The famine was severe in the land.

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In The King James Version

And the famine was sore in the land.

In Context

2When they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said to them, “Go again, buy us a little more food.”

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Cross References

Genesis 12:10There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was severe in the land.

Genesis 41:54The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

Genesis 41:57All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

Ecclesiastes 9:1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.

Acts 7:11Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. 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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