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Genesis 47:13
New English Translation

13 But there was no food in all the land because the famine was very severe; the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan wasted away[a] because of the famine.

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  1. Genesis 47:13 tn The verb לַהַה (lahah, = לָאָה, laʾah) means “to faint, to languish”; it figuratively describes the land as wasting away, drooping, being worn out.
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