Trouvé 92 Résultats pour: Famine
And now the country was stricken with famine; and Abram made his way into Egypt, to take refuge there, so grievous was the famine all over the country. (Genesis 12, 10)
When a famine came upon the land again, like the famine which had visited it in Abraham’s time, Isaac was for leaving it; and he had reached the court of Abimelech, king of the Philistines, in Gerara, (Genesis 26, 1)
Whereas the seven gaunt, starved cattle which came up after them, and the seven shrunken, blighted ears of corn, prophesy seven years of famine. (Genesis 41, 27)
and they will be followed by seven years of such drought as will efface the memory of the good times that went before them. Famine will ravage the whole country, (Genesis 41, 30)
to make provision for the seven years’ famine by which Egypt will be overtaken; if not, the whole land will perish for want of it. (Genesis 41, 36)
In these years before the famine came, Joseph’s wife Aseneth, daughter of Putiphare that was priest at Heliopolis, bore him two sons. (Genesis 41, 50)
and now, as Joseph had prophesied, seven years of scarcity began; famine reigned all over the world, but everywhere in Egypt there was bread to be had. (Genesis 41, 54)
And Joseph, as the famine grew daily worse everywhere, opened the storehouses and made the Egyptians, too, buy their corn, for they were as hungry as the rest. (Genesis 41, 56)
So they made their way into Egypt with others who were going there to buy; the whole of Chanaan was by now famine-stricken. (Genesis 42, 5)
But still the land was famine-stricken (Genesis 43, 1)
It is two years now since famine came to these parts, and there will be no ploughing, no reaping harvests, for five years more; (Genesis 45, 6)
And there, since there are still five years of famine to come, I will maintain thee and keep thee from starving, with that household of thine and all thou hast. (Genesis 45, 11)
