Genesis 12:10

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Gen 43:1 : 1 The famine was severe in the land.
  • Gen 46:3-4 : 3 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation. 4 I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."
  • Gen 47:13 : 13 There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
  • Ruth 1:1 : 1 It happened in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
  • 2 Sam 21:1 : 1 There was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, "It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites."
  • 1 Kgs 17:1-9 : 1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word." 2 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying, 3 "Go away from here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. 4 It shall be, that you shall drink of the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there." 5 So he went and did according to the word of Yahweh; for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan. 6 The ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. 7 It happened after a while, that the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land. 8 The word of Yahweh came to him, saying, 9 "Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you." 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath; and when he came to the gate of the city, behold, a widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, "Please get me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink." 11 As she was going to get it, he called to her, and said, "Please bring me a morsel of bread in your hand." 12 She said, "As Yahweh your God lives, I don't have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die." 13 Elijah said to her, "Don't be afraid. Go and do as you have said; but make me of it a little cake first, and bring it out to me, and afterward make some for you and for your son. 14 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'The jar of meal shall not empty, neither shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that Yahweh sends rain on the earth.'" 15 She went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, ate [many] days. 16 The jar of meal didn't empty, neither did the jar of oil fail, according to the word of Yahweh, which he spoke by Elijah. 17 It happened after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him. 18 She said to Elijah, "What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!"
  • 2 Kgs 4:38 : 38 Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, "Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets."
  • 2 Kgs 6:25 : 25 There was a great famine in Samaria. Behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
  • 2 Kgs 7:1-8 : 1 Elisha said, "Hear the word of Yahweh. Thus says Yahweh, 'Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.'" 2 Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, "Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?" He said, "Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it." 3 Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said one to another, "Why do we sit here until we die? 4 If we say, 'We will enter into the city,' then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die." 5 They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no man there. 6 For the Lord had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army: and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come on us. 7 Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life. 8 When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried there silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried there also, and went and hid it.
  • 2 Kgs 8:1-2 : 1 Now Elisha had spoken to the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, "Arise, and go, you and your household, and stay for a while wherever you can; for Yahweh has called for a famine. It shall also come on the land seven years." 2 The woman arose, and did according to the word of the man of God. She went with her household, and lived in the land of the Philistines seven years.
  • Ps 34:19 : 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
  • Ps 105:13 : 13 They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
  • Ps 107:34 : 34 and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
  • Jer 14:1 : 1 The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.
  • John 16:33 : 33 I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."
  • Acts 7:11 : 11 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
  • Acts 14:22 : 22 confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.
  • Gen 26:1-3 : 1 There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar. 2 Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about. 3 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
  • Gen 42:5 : 5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

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  • Gen 12:11-14
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    11 It happened, when he had come near to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.

    12 It will happen, when the Egyptians will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

    13 Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you."

    14 It happened that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

  • Gen 43:1-2
    2 verses
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    1 The famine was severe in the land.

    2 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."

  • Gen 12:9
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    9 Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.

  • Gen 26:1-2
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    1 There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

    2 Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

  • Acts 7:11-12
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    11 Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

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

  • Gen 47:13
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    13 There was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

  • Gen 12:17-20
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    17 Yahweh plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

    18 Pharaoh called Abram and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

    19 Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."

    20 Pharaoh commanded men concerning him, and they brought him on the way with his wife and all that he had.

  • Gen 12:5-6
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    5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came.

    6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.

  • Gen 41:54-57
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    54 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.

    55 When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."

    56 The famine was over all the surface of the earth. Joseph opened all the store houses, and sold to the Egyptians. The famine was severe in the land of Egypt.

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

  • Gen 13:1-2
    2 verses
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    1 Abram went up out of Egypt: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

    2 Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

  • Gen 42:5
    73%

    5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 20:1
    73%

    1 Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

  • Gen 42:2-3
    2 verses
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    2 He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."

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

  • Gen 15:12-13
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    12 When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

    13 He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

  • Gen 12:1
    72%

    1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.

  • Gen 41:30-31
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    30 There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

    31 and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.

  • Gen 21:34
    71%

    34 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.

  • Gen 13:5-6
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    5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

    6 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.

  • Gen 16:2
    70%

    2 Sarai said to Abram, "See now, Yahweh has restrained me from bearing. Please go in to my handmaid. It may be that I will obtain children by her." Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.

  • Gen 41:36
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    36 The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine."

  • Gen 47:4
    70%

    4 They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."