Genesis 43:1

Webster's Bible (1833)

The famine was severe in the land.

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  • Gen 12:10 : 10 There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was sore in the land.
  • Gen 18:13 : 13 Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'
  • Gen 41:54-57 : 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 42:5 : 5 The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
  • Eccl 9:1-2 : 1 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. 2 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn't sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.
  • Lam 5:10 : 10 Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
  • Acts 7:11-13 : 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. 13 On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.

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  • Gen 43:2
    86%

    2It 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 47:12-15
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    84%

    12Joseph nourished his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, with bread, according to their families.

    13There 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.

    14Joseph 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.

    15When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph, and said, "Give us bread, for why should we die in your presence? For our money fails."

  • Gen 41:53-57
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    81%

    53The seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

    54The 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.

    55When 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."

    56The 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.

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

  • Acts 7:11-12
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    81%

    11Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

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

  • Gen 42:5
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    5The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

  • Gen 41:29-31
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    29Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.

    30There 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,

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

  • Gen 41:36
    78%

    36The 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 12:10
    77%

    10There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was sore in the land.

  • Gen 44:25
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    25Our father said, 'Go again, buy us a little food.'

  • Gen 42:1-3
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    76%

    1Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"

    2He 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."

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

  • Gen 45:6
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    6For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.

  • Gen 26:1
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    1There 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.

  • Gen 43:20
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    20and said, "Oh, my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:

  • Ps 105:16
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    16He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.

  • Luke 15:14
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    14When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

  • Gen 47:4
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    4They 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."

  • Gen 43:4
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    4If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food,

  • Gen 42:33
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    33The man, the lord of the land, said to us, 'Hereby will I know that you are honest men. Leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the famine of your houses, and go your way.

  • Gen 47:18-19
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    18When that year was ended, they came to him the second year, and said to him, "We will not hide from my lord how our money is all spent, and the herds of cattle are my lord's. There is nothing left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands.

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

  • Gen 45:11
    72%

    11There I will nourish you; for there are yet five years of famine; lest you come to poverty, you, and your household, and all that you have."'

  • Jer 14:1
    72%

    1The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

  • Gen 45:18
    71%

    18Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'

  • Gen 42:29
    71%

    29They came to Jacob their father to the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened to them, saying,