Acts 7:11 KJV — MannaFest

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

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

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

DBT

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

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Acts — The Gospel's sequel. Jerusalem → Judea and Samaria → the ends of the earth. Three missionary journeys and the voyage to Rome.

Author: Luke, companion of Paul — the 'we' passages begin in 16:10
Date: c. AD 62

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Genesis 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.
Psalms 105:23
Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
Genesis 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.
Genesis 42:5
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Psalms 105:16
Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.

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He applies this to those that prosecuted him, and sat in judgment upon him, sharply reproving them for their wickedness, by which they had brought upon themselves the ruin of their place and nation, and then could not bear to hear of it,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him--Here Stephen gives his first example of Israel's opposition to God's purposes, in spite of which and by means of which those purposes were accomplished.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

That fruitful land was turned into barrenness. But, hearing that there was corn in Egypt (treasured up by the wisdom of his own son), he sent out our fathers first to fetch corn,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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