¹ Meanwhile, the famine remained severe throughout the region. ² As a result, when Jacob's family was beginning to eat the last of the grain that they had brought back from Egypt, their father Jacob told his sons, "Go back to Egypt and buy us some food."

Phrases

Famine in the Land

Names

Canaan

Cross References

Genesis 12:10

There was a famine in the land, so Abram went down to Egypt to live because the famine was so severe.

Genesis 18:13

The LORD asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and think, "Am I really going to bear a child, since I'm so old?'

Genesis 41:54-57

the seven years of famine started, just as Joseph had predicted. It was an international famine, but there was food everywhere throughout the land of Egypt.

Genesis 42:5

Israel's sons went in a caravan that included others who were going to Egypt to buy grain, because the famine pervaded the land of Canaan, too.

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

In light of all of this, I committed myself to explain it this way: the righteous and the wise, along with everything they do, are in the hands of God. Furthermore, as to love and hate, no human being knows everything concerning them.

Lamentations 5:10

Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine.

Acts 7:11-13

"But a famine spread throughout Egypt and Canaan, and with it great suffering, and our ancestors couldn't find any food.

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