The famine was severe in the land.
Parallel translations
- KJV And the famine was sore in the land.
- BSB Now the famine was still severe in the land.
- ESV Now the famine was severe in the land.
- NKJV Now the famine was severe in the land.
- NASB Now the famine was severe in the land.
- NLT But the famine continued to ravage the land of Canaan.
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Cross-references & the web
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- Gen 12:10There 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.
- Lam 5:10Our skin is black like an oven, Because of the burning heat of famine.
- Acts 7:11–13Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
- Eccl 9:1–2For 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.
- Gen 42:5The sons of Israel came to buy among those who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
- Gen 41:54–57The 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.
- Gen 18:13Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?’
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