Genesis 42:1-6

Joseph’s Brothers Sent to Egypt

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

⁶Now Joseph was the ruler over the land; he was the one who sold grain to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.

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