11Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
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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. …
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. …
Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
And the famine was sore in the land.
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-16)Stephen is now at the bar before the great council of the nation, indicted for blasphemy: what the witnesses swore against him we had an account of in the foregoing chapter, that he spoke blasphemous words against Moses and God; for he spoke against this holy place and the law. Now here, I. The high priest calls upon him to answer for himself, Acts 7:1. He was president, and, as such, the mouth of…
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