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Lamentations 5:10
Our skin is hot as an oven, feverish from hunger. (niv)
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Genèse 12:10
Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe. (niv)
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Genèse 41:54-57
and the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt there was food.When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Then Pharaoh told all the Egyptians,“ Go to Joseph and do what he tells you.”When the famine had spread over the whole country, Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians, for the famine was severe throughout Egypt.And all the world came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe everywhere. (niv)
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Genèse 42:5
So Israel’s sons were among those who went to buy grain, for there was famine in the land of Canaan also. (niv)
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Genèse 18:13
Then the Lord said to Abraham,“ Why did Sarah laugh and say,‘ Will I really have a child, now that I am old?’ (niv)
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Actes 7:11-13
“ Then a famine struck all Egypt and Canaan, bringing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent our forefathers on their first visit.On their second visit, Joseph told his brothers who he was, and Pharaoh learned about Joseph’s family. (niv)
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Ecclésiaste 9:1-2
So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God’s hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them.All share a common destiny— the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As it is with the good, so with the sinful; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them. (niv)
