“Then a famine struck all Egypt and Canaan, bringing great suffering, and our ancestors could not find food.
NMVNow there came a famine over all the land of Mitzrayim (Egypt) [the black land, The Narrow Place] and Kena’an [lowland], and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
OJBNow a famine came over all Mitzrayim (Egypt) and Kena'an and tzarah gedolah (great tribulation) and Avoteinu were not finding okhel.
TCENTThen a famine came upon all the land of Egypt and Canaan, along with great suffering, and our fathers could find no food.
T4T“While Joseph was doing that work, there was a time ◄when there was very little food/of famine► throughout Egypt and also throughout Canaan. People did not have enough food to eat. People were suffering. At that time Jacob and his sons in Canaan also could not find enough food.