Genesis 43:1

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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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 43:2
    86%

    2When they had finished eating the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy a little more food for us.”

  • Gen 47:12-15
    4 verses
    84%

    12Joseph also provided food for his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household according to the number of their children.

    13There was no food in the entire land because the famine was very severe. The land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away under the pressure of the famine.

    14Joseph collected all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought the money into Pharaoh’s house.

    15When the money from the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, 'Give us food! Why should we die in front of you? For our money is gone.'

  • Gen 41:53-57
    5 verses
    81%

    53The seven years of abundance in the land of Egypt came to an end.

    54Then 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.

    55When 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.'

    56The 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.

    57And people from all the surrounding lands came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the lands.

  • Acts 7:11-12
    2 verses
    81%

    11Then a famine came over the entire land of Egypt and Canaan, bringing great distress, and our ancestors could not find food.

    12When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our ancestors there for the first time.

  • Gen 42:5
    80%

    5So the sons of Israel came to buy grain, along with others who were coming, for the famine was also in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 41:29-31
    3 verses
    79%

    29Behold, seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt.

    30But after them, seven years of famine will arise, and all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten. The famine will ravage the land.

    31The abundance in the land will not be remembered because the famine that follows will be so severe.

  • Gen 41:36
    78%

    36This food will be held in reserve for the land to be used during the seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt, so that the land will not be destroyed by the famine.

  • Gen 12:10
    77%

    10Now 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 44:25
    76%

    25Later, our father said, 'Go back and buy us a little more food.'

  • Gen 42:1-3
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    76%

    1When Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, 'Why are you standing around looking at each other?'

    2And he said, 'Look, I have heard there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.'

    3Then ten of Joseph's brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

  • Gen 45:6
    75%

    6For two years now, there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years, there will be no plowing or harvesting.

  • Gen 26:1
    75%

    1Now there was a famine in the land, apart from the earlier famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Abimelech, the king of the Philistines, in Gerar.

  • Gen 43:20
    75%

    20They said, "Please, my lord, we came down here before to buy food.

  • Ps 105:16
    73%

    16He called famine upon the land; He broke the supply of bread.

  • Luke 15:14
    73%

    14After he had spent everything, a severe famine arose throughout that country, and he began to be in need.

  • Gen 47:4
    72%

    4They also said to Pharaoh, 'We have come to sojourn in this land because there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine in the land of Canaan is severe. Please allow your servants to settle in the region of Goshen.'

  • Gen 43:4
    72%

    4If you send our brother with us, we will go down and buy food for you.

  • Gen 42:33
    72%

    33'Then the man who is lord of the land said to us, "This is how I will know if you are honest men: Leave one of your brothers here with me and take food for your starving households and go.

  • Gen 47:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said, 'We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and our livestock has been given to you. There is nothing left for our lord but our bodies and our land.'

    19'Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we will be servants to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.'

  • Gen 45:11
    72%

    11I will provide for you there, because there are still five years of famine to come, so that neither you, your household, nor anything that belongs to you will fall into poverty.

  • Jer 14:1
    72%

    1This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the droughts.

  • Gen 45:18
    71%

    18Then bring your father and your households and come back to me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you will eat from the fat of the land.

  • Gen 42:29
    71%

    29When they came to Jacob, their father, in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them.