Genesis 42:1-5
Genesis 42:1
Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”
Genesis 42:2
Then he said, “Look, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; go down there and buy some for us from that place, so that we may live and not die.”
Genesis 42:3
So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
Genesis 42:4
But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm may happen to him.”
Genesis 42:5
So the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those who were coming, because the famine was also in the land of Canaan.