Abram and Sarai in Egypt

10 ^eNow there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to ^fsojourn there, for the famine was severe in the land.

God’s Promise to Isaac

1 Now there was a famine in the land, besides ^bthe former famine that was in the days of Abraham. ^cAnd Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

4 They said to Pharaoh, ^l“We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”

Naomi Widowed

1 ^aIn the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of ^bBethlehem in Judah ^cwent to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.