Genesis 47:13 meaning and explanation
There was no food, however, in all that region, because the famine was so severe; the lands of Egypt and Canaan had been exhausted by the famine.
Genesis 47:13, Berean Standard Bible
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The narrator pauses the family story to show how far the famine reached. Food runs out across the whole region, not only in Canaan, so Egypt's own people are drawn into the crisis.
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