| Basic English (BBE): | And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt. |
| World English (WEB): | There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was sore in the land. |
| Webster's: | And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to dwell there; for the famine was grievous in the land. |
| J.N.Darby: | And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was grievous in the land. |
| American Standard (1991 AD): | And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land. |
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| King James (1611 AD): | And there was a famine in the land, and Abram went downe into Egypt, to soiourne there: for the famine was grieuous in the land. |
| Bishops' (1568 AD): | And the there was a famine in that lande, and therfore went Abram downe into Egypt, that he myght soiourne there, for there was a greeuons famine in the lande. |
| Languages Translated: | Spanish, French, German, Latin (more soon) |