New Revised Standard Version
Now there came a famine throughout Egypt and Canaan, and great suffering, and our ancestors could find no food.

Contemporary English Version
Everywhere in Egypt and Canaan the grain crops failed. There was terrible suffering, and our ancestors could not find enough to eat.

New American Bible
Then a famine and great affliction struck all Egypt and Canaan, and our ancestors could find no food;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Chanaan, and great tribulation: and our fathers found no food.

Now there came a famine upon all Egypt and Chanaan, and great tribulation: and our fathers found no food.

Genesis 41:54-57 The seven years of scarcity, which Joseph had foretold, began to come: and the famine prevailed in the whole world, but there was bread in all the land of Egypt. . . .

Genesis 43:1 In the mean time the famine was heavy upon all the land.

Genesis 45:5,6,11 Be not afraid, and let it not seem to you a hard case that you sold me into these countries: for God sent me before you into Egypt for your preservation. . . .

Genesis 47:13-15 For in the whole world there was want of bread, and a famine had oppressed the land, more especially of Egypt and Chanaan; . . .

Psalm 105:16 And he called a famine upon the land: and he broke in pieces all the support of bread.