Genesis 47:13
For in the whole world there was want of bread, and a famine had oppressed the land: more especially of Egypt and Chanaan.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- In toto enim orbe panis deerat, et oppresserat fames terram, maxime Ægypti et Chanaan.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- Σῖτος δὲ οὐκ ἦν ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ, ἐνίσχυσεν γὰρ ὁ λιμὸς σφόδρα· ἐξέλιπεν δὲ ἡ γῆ Αἰγύπτου καὶ ἡ γῆ Χανάαν ἀπὸ τοῦ λιμοῦ·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְלֶ֤חֶם אֵין֙ בְּכָל הָאָ֔רֶץ כִּֽי כָבֵ֥ד הָרָעָ֖ב מְאֹ֑ד וַתֵּ֜לַהּ אֶ֤רֶץ מִצְרַ֨יִם֙ וְאֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַ֔עַן מִפְּנֵ֖י הָרָעָֽב
Haydock's commentary
Chanaan. The whole world that was inhabited, and known to the Hebrews, felt perhaps the effects of this raging famine; but the countries here mentioned were the most afflicted. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.