Verse 1

Now the famine was severe in the land.

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  • Gen 12:10 : 10 Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
  • Gen 18:13 : 13 Then the LORD said to Abraham, 'Why did Sarah laugh, saying, “Can I really bear a child when I am old?”'
  • Gen 41:54-57 : 54 Then the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in every land, but in all the land of Egypt there was food. 55 When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried out to Pharaoh for food. Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, 'Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.' 56 The famine was severe over the entire land. Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine grew more severe throughout Egypt. 57 And people from all the surrounding lands came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the lands.
  • Gen 42:5 : 5 So the sons of Israel came to buy grain, along with others who were coming, for the famine was also in the land of Canaan.
  • Eccl 9:1-2 : 1 So I reflected on all this and set my heart to examine it: that the righteous, the wise, and their deeds are in the hand of God. People do not know whether love or hatred awaits them; everything lies before them. 2 Everything happens alike to everyone: the same fate comes to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the pure and the impure, to those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As with the good person, so with the sinner; as with those who swear oaths, so with those who avoid them.
  • Lam 5:10 : 10 Our skin is hot as an oven, burned from the raging heat of famine.
  • Acts 7:11-13 : 11 Then a famine came over the entire land of Egypt and Canaan, bringing great distress, and our ancestors could not find food. 12 When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there for the first time. 13 On their second visit, Joseph revealed his identity to his brothers, and his family became known to Pharaoh.