Genesis 42:1-4 ▼

1 When Jacob learned that grain rations were for sale in Egypt, he said to his sons: “Why do you keep looking at one another?”

2 He went on, “I hear that grain is for sale in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, that we may stay alive and not die.”

3 So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.

4 But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he thought some disaster might befall him.