Acts 7:11
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
KJV
ἦλθεν δὲ λιμὸς ἐφ’ ὅλην τὴν Αἴγυπτον καὶ Χανάαν καὶ θλῖψις μεγάλη, καὶ οὐχ εὕρισκον χορτάσματα οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν.
Greek NT
Venit autem fames in universam Ægyptum et Chanaan, et tribulatio magna : et non inveniebant cibos patres nostri.
Vulgate
Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
ASV
Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Chanaan, and great tribulation: and our fathers found no food.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- Αἴγυπτον — SBLGNT
- Αἴγυπτον — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- γῆν Αἰγύπτου — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Gen 41:54 — And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
- Gen 41:54 — And the seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
- Gen 42:5 — And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
- Gen 42:5 — And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
- Gen 43:1 — And the famine was sore in the land.
- Gen 45:5 — Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
- Gen 45:11 — And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
- Gen 47:4 — They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, l
- Gen 47:13 — And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
- Gen 47:13 — And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
- Ps 105:16 — Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
- Ps 105:16 — Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
- Ps 105:23 — Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.