But there was a famine in Canaan, and it was so bad that Abram went farther south to Egypt, to live there for a while.

There was another famine in the land besides the earlier one during the time of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

People came to Egypt from all over the world to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe everywhere.

Then there was a famine all over Egypt and Canaan, which caused much suffering. Our ancestors could not find any food,

One of them, named Agabus, stood up and by the power of the Spirit predicted that a severe famine was about to come over all the earth. (It came when Claudius was emperor.)