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Genesis 43:1
“The famine was severe in the land.”
Genesis 43:1 in the King James Version
And the famine was sore in the land.Read Genesis 43:1 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Genesis 43
The famine was severe in the land.
It happened, when 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.
Judah spoke to him, saying, "The man solemnly warned us, saying, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.
Cross references for Genesis 43:1
- Genesis 12:10
There 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.
- Acts 7:11-13
Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food. But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time. On the second time Joseph was made known t...
- Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
- Genesis 42:5
The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 18:13
Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?
- Ecclesiastes 9:1-2
For 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. All things come alike to all. There...
- Genesis 41:54-57
The 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. When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said ...
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