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Acts 7:11
“Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.”
Verse in context — Acts 7
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The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,
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and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
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Now a famine came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction. Our fathers found no food.
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But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers the first time.
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On the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Joseph's race was revealed to Pharaoh.
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