THEOSISGenesis 42:5Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And they entered into the land of Egypt with others that went to buy. For the famine was in the land of Chanaan.
וַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לִשְׁבֹּ֖ר בְּת֣וֹךְ הַבָּאִ֑ים כִּֽי־הָיָ֥ה הָרָעָ֖ב בְּאֶ֥רֶץ כְּנָֽעַן׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Acts 7:11Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Chanaan, and great tribulation: and our fathers found no food.
- Gen 12:10And there came a famine in the country: and Abram went down into Egypt, to sojourn there: for the famine was very grievous in the land.
- Gen 41:57And all provinces came into Egypt, to buy food, and to seek some relief of their want.
- Gen 26:1And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestines, to Gerara.
- Acts 11:28And one of them named Agabus, rising up, signified by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over the whole world, which came to pass under Claudius.