Genesis 42:5

American Standard Version (1901)

And the sons of Israel came to buy among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 12:10 : 10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.
  • Gen 41:57 : 57 And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was sore in all the earth.
  • Acts 7:11 : 11 Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
  • Gen 26:1 : 1 And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, unto Gerar.
  • Acts 11:28 : 28 And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 42:1-3
    3 verses
    86%

    1Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

    2And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

    3And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy grain from Egypt.

  • Gen 41:54-57
    4 verses
    85%

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

    55And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do.

    56And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.

    57And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was sore in all the earth.

  • Gen 42:6-7
    2 verses
    83%

    6And Joseph was the governor over the land; he it was that sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves to him with their faces to the earth.

    7And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly with them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

  • Gen 43:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1And the famine was sore in the land.

    2And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.

  • Gen 42:10
    78%

    10And they said unto him, Nay, my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.

  • Gen 47:13-15
    3 verses
    77%

    13And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

    14And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

    15And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for [our] money faileth.

  • Acts 7:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

    12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent forth our fathers the first time.

  • Gen 43:20
    75%

    20and said, Oh, my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:

  • Gen 45:4
    75%

    4And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

  • Gen 45:6
    75%

    6For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.

  • Gen 47:4
    74%

    4And they said unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants' flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

  • Gen 41:36
    74%

    36And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

  • Gen 47:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19wherefore should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.

    20So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine was sore upon them: and the land became Pharaoh's.

  • Gen 43:15
    74%

    15And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

  • Gen 47:1
    74%

    1Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.