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Acts 7:11
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction; and our fathers found no sustenance.
Acts 7:11 · Webster Bible
Acts 7:11 in other translations
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.
Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
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In context
8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so [Abraham] begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac [begat] Jacob, and Jacob [begat] the twelve patriarchs.
9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
10 And delivered him from all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt, and all his house.
11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction; and our fathers found no sustenance.
12 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first.
13 And at the second [time] Joseph was made known to his brethren: and Joseph's kindred was made known to Pharaoh.
14 Then Joseph sent, and called his father Jacob to [him], and all his kindred, seventy five souls.
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