Acts 7:11

Lexham English Bible

And a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan and great affliction, and our fathers could not find food.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now a famine and great suffering came over all of Egypt and Canaan, and our ancestors could find no food.

King James Version (1611)
Now there came a dearth ouer all the land of Egypt, and Chanaan, and great affliction, and our fathers found no sustenance.

King James Version
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

English Standard Version
Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.

New American Standard Bible
"Now a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction with it, and our fathers could find no food.

New Century Version
"Then all the land of Egypt and Canaan became so dry that nothing would grow, and the people suffered very much. Jacob's sons, our ancestors, could not find anything to eat.

Amplified Bible
"Now a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, bringing great distress and our fathers could not find food [for their households and livestock].

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction with it, and our fathers could find no food.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Now a famine came over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction with it, and our fathers could find no food.

Berean Standard Bible
Then famine and great suffering swept across Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers could not find food.

Contemporary English Version
Everywhere in Egypt and Canaan the grain crops failed. There was terrible suffering, and our ancestors could not find enough to eat.

Complete Jewish Bible
Now there came a famine that caused much suffering throughout Egypt and Kena‘an

Darby Translation
But a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great distress, and our fathers found no food.

Easy-to-Read Version
But all the land of Egypt and of Canaan became dry. It became so dry that food could not grow, and the people suffered very much. Our people could not find anything to eat.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then came there a famine ouer all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction, that our fathers found no sustenance.

George Lamsa Translation
Now there came a famine which brought great distress throughout Egypt and in the land of Ca''naan so that our forefathers found no sustenance.

Good News Translation
Then there was a famine all over Egypt and Canaan, which caused much suffering. Our ancestors could not find any food,

Literal Translation
But a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. And our fathers did not find food.

American Standard Version
Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

Bible in Basic English
Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.

Hebrew Names Version
Now a famine came over all the land of Mitzrayim and Kana`an, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

International Standard Version
"But a famine spread throughout Egypt and Canaan, and with it great suffering, and our ancestors couldn't find any food.Genesis 41:54;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
AND there was a famine and great affliction in all Mitsreen, and in the land of Kenaan, and our fathers had nothing to satisfy them.

Murdock Translation
And there was a famine and great distress in all Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, and our fathers lacked food.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But there came a dearth ouer all the land of Egypt and Chanaan: and great affliction, that our fathers founde no sustenaunce.

English Revised Version
Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

World English Bible
Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers found no sustenance.

Weymouth's New Testament
But there came a famine throughout the whole of Egypt and Canaan--and great distress--so that our forefathers could find no food.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And hungur cam in to al Egipt, and Canaan, and greet tribulacioun; and oure fadris founden not mete.

Update Bible Version
Now there came a famine over all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction; and our fathers found no sustenance.

New English Translation
Then a famine occurred throughout Egypt and Canaan, causing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.

New King James Version
Now a famine and great trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance.

New Living Translation
"But a famine came upon Egypt and Canaan. There was great misery, and our ancestors ran out of food.

New Life Bible
"The time came when there was no food to eat in all the land of Egypt and Canaan. The people suffered much. Our early fathers were not able to get food.

New Revised Standard
Now there came a famine throughout Egypt and Canaan, and great suffering, and our ancestors could find no food.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there came a famine upon all Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers could not find pasture.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Chanaan, and great tribulation: and our fathers found no food.

Revised Standard Version
Now there came a famine throughout all Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction, and our fathers could find no food.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then came ther a derth over all the londe of Egipt and Canaan and great affliccion that our fathers founde no sustenauce.

Young's Literal Translation
`And there came a dearth upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great tribulation, and our fathers were not finding sustenance,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But there came a derth ouer all the londe of Egipte and Canaan, and a greate trouble, and oure fathers founde no sustenaunce.

Mace New Testament (1729)
in the mean time a famine spread over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, so that our fathers did not know where to get provisions.

THE MESSAGE
"Later a famine descended on that entire region, stretching from Egypt to Canaan, bringing terrific hardship. Our hungry fathers looked high and low for food, but the cupboard was bare. Jacob heard there was food in Egypt and sent our fathers to scout it out. Having confirmed the report, they went back to Egypt a second time to get food. On that visit, Joseph revealed his true identity to his brothers and introduced the Jacob family to Pharaoh. Then Joseph sent for his father, Jacob, and everyone else in the family, seventy-five in all. That's how the Jacob family got to Egypt. "Jacob died, and our fathers after him. They were taken to Shechem and buried in the tomb for which Abraham paid a good price to the sons of Hamor. "When the four hundred years were nearly up, the time God promised Abraham for deliverance, the population of our people in Egypt had become very large. And there was now a king over Egypt who had never heard of Joseph. He exploited our race mercilessly. He went so far as forcing us to abandon our newborn infants, exposing them to the elements to die a cruel death. "In just such a time Moses was born, a most beautiful baby. He was hidden at home for three months. When he could be hidden no longer, he was put outside—and immediately rescued by Pharaoh's daughter, who mothered him as her own son. Moses was educated in the best schools in Egypt. He was equally impressive as a thinker and an athlete. "When he was forty years old, he wondered how everything was going with his Hebrew kin and went out to look things over. He saw an Egyptian abusing one of them and stepped in, avenging his underdog brother by knocking the Egyptian flat. He thought his brothers would be glad that he was on their side, and even see him as an instrument of God to deliver them. But they didn't see it that way. The next day two of them were fighting and he tried to break it up, told them to shake hands and get along with each other: ‘Friends, you are brothers, why are you beating up on each other?' "The one who had started the fight said, ‘Who put you in charge of us? Are you going to kill me like you killed that Egyptian yesterday?' When Moses heard that, realizing that the word was out, he ran for his life and lived in exile over in Midian. During the years of exile, two sons were born to him. "Forty years later, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, an angel appeared to him in the guise of flames of a burning bush. Moses, not believing his eyes, went up to take a closer look. He heard God's voice: ‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Frightened nearly out of his skin, Moses shut his eyes and turned away. "God said, ‘Kneel and pray. You are in a holy place, on holy ground. I've seen the agony of my people in Egypt. I've heard their groans. I've come to help them. So get yourself ready; I'm sending you back to Egypt.' "This is the same Moses whom they earlier rejected, saying, ‘Who put you in charge of us?' This is the Moses that God, using the angel flaming in the burning bush, sent back as ruler and redeemer. He led them out of their slavery. He did wonderful things, setting up God-signs all through Egypt, down at the Red Sea, and out in the wilderness for forty years. This is the Moses who said to his congregation, ‘God will raise up a prophet just like me from your descendants.' This is the Moses who stood between the angel speaking at Sinai and your fathers assembled in the wilderness and took the life-giving words given to him and handed them over to us, words our fathers would have nothing to do with. "They craved the old Egyptian ways, whining to Aaron, ‘Make us gods we can see and follow. This Moses who got us out here miles from nowhere—who knows what's happened to him!' That was the time when they made a calf-idol, brought sacrifices to it, and congratulated each other on the wonderful religious program they had put together. "God wasn't at all pleased; but he let them do it their way, worship every new god that came down the pike—and live with the consequences, consequences described by the prophet Amos: Did you bring me offerings of animals and grains those forty wilderness years, O Israel? Hardly. You were too busy building shrines to war gods, to sex goddesses, Worshiping them with all your might. That's why I put you in exile in Babylon. "And all this time our ancestors had a tent shrine for true worship, made to the exact specifications God provided Moses. They had it with them as they followed Joshua, when God cleared the land of pagans, and still had it right down to the time of David. David asked God for a permanent place for worship. But Solomon built it. "Yet that doesn't mean that Most High God lives in a building made by carpenters and masons. The prophet Isaiah put it well when he wrote, "Heaven is my throne room; I rest my feet on earth. So what kind of house will you build me?" says God. "Where I can get away and relax? It's already built, and I built it." "And you continue, so bullheaded! Calluses on your hearts, flaps on your ears! Deliberately ignoring the Holy Spirit, you're just like your ancestors. Was there ever a prophet who didn't get the same treatment? Your ancestors killed anyone who dared talk about the coming of the Just One. And you've kept up the family tradition—traitors and murderers, all of you. You had God's Law handed to you by angels—gift-wrapped!—and you squandered it!" At that point they went wild, a rioting mob of catcalls and whistles and invective. But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, hardly noticed—he only had eyes for God, whom he saw in all his glory with Jesus standing at his side. He said, "Oh! I see heaven wide open and the Son of Man standing at God's side!" Yelling and hissing, the mob drowned him out. Now in full stampede, they dragged him out of town and pelted him with rocks. The ringleaders took off their coats and asked a young man named Saul to watch them. As the rocks rained down, Stephen prayed, "Master Jesus, take my life." Then he knelt down, praying loud enough for everyone to hear, "Master, don't blame them for this sin"—his last words. Then he died.

Simplified Cowboy Version
"But a drought struck the area of Egypt and Canaan. A lot of people died when the food ran out.

Contextual Overview

¹ And the high priest said, "Is it so concerning these things?" ² So he said, "Men—brothers and fathers—listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was in Mesopotamia, before he settled in Haran, ³ and said to him, ‘Go out from your land and from your relatives and come to the land that I will show you.' ⁴ Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. And from there, after his father died, he caused him to move to this land in which you now live. ⁵ And he did not give him an inheritance in it—not even a footstep—and he promised to give it to him for his possession, and to his descendants after him, although he did not have a child. ⁶ But God spoke like this: ‘His descendants will be foreigners in a foreign land, and they will enslave them and mistreat them four hundred years, ⁷ and the nation that they will serve as slaves, I will judge,' God said, ‘and after these things they will come out and will worship me in this place.' ⁸ And he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac did so with Jacob, and Jacob did so with the twelve patriarchs. ⁹ And the patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. And God was with him, ¹⁰ and rescued him from all his afflictions and granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And he appointed him ruler over Egypt and all his household.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 41:54-57, Genesis 43:1, Genesis 45:5, Genesis 45:6, Genesis 45:11, Genesis 47:13-15, Psalms 105:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:10 - was a Genesis 42:5 - for Genesis 47:4 - for the famine Psalms 105:23 - Israel

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
So God made the vaulted dome, and he caused a separation between the waters which were under the vaulted dome and between the waters which were over the vaulted dome. And it was so.

Genesis 6:17
And I, behold, I am about to bring the flood waters over the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.

Genesis 7:5
And Noah did according to all that Yahweh commanded him.

Genesis 7:6
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood waters came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:8
Of clean animals, and of animals which are not clean, and of the birds, and everything that creeps upon the ground,

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month—on that day all the springs of the great deep were split open, and the windows of heaven were opened.

Genesis 7:23
And he blotted out every living thing upon the surface of the ground, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained.

Genesis 7:24
And the waters prevailed over the earth one hundred and fifty days.

2 Kings 7:2
Then the officer on whom the king relied answered the man of God and said, "Look, even if Yahweh is making windows in heaven, could this thing happen?" And he said, "Look, you will be seeing it with your eyes, but you shall not eat from it there."

2 Kings 7:19
Then the officer had replied to the man of God and said, "Look, even if Yahweh is opening the windows in heaven, could this thing happen?" And he had said, "Look you are about to see it with your eyes, but you will not eat from it."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt, and Canaan,.... This dearth, or famine, is said to be in all lands, Genesis 41:54 though only Egypt and Canaan are mentioned here, because the history is concerned with no other. The Jewish writers p speak of three lands particularly, which were affected with it, Phenicia, Arabia, and Palestine; and this famine in the land of Israel, they say q, which lasted seven years, was on account of the selling of Joseph into Egypt, as before observed. The Heathen writers make mention of this famine, particularly Justin r, who speaking of Joseph says, that he foresaw many years before the barrenness of the fields; and all Egypt would have perished with famine, had not the king, through his advice, ordered by an edict, that corn should be laid up for many years: this was the fifth of the ten famines, the Jews say have been, or shall be in the world s:

and great affliction; meaning the famine, which was very severe, and lasted a long time, even seven years: want of eating is called

עינוי, "affliction", by the Jews t; by which they mean fasting, which is a voluntary want of eating, or abstinence from it; and if that is an affliction, then much more want of food, or abstinence through necessity; compare 1 Timothy 5:10.

And our fathers found not sustenance; Jacob and his family could not get sufficient provision for them in the land of Canaan, where they then were, but were obliged to go to Egypt for it.

p Bereshit Rabba, sect. 90. fol. 78. 1. q Pirke Eliezer, c. 38. r Ex Trogo, l. 36. c. 2. s Targum in Ruth i. 1. t Moses Kotsensis Mitzvot Tora pr. Affirm. 32.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now there came a dearth - A famine, Genesis 41:54.

And Chanaan - Jacob was living at that time in Canaan.

Found no sustenance - No food; no means of living.