Genesis 42:1-5 ▼

1 Eventually, Jacob observed that there was grain in Egypt, so he asked his sons, |Why do you keep on staring at one another?

2 Pay attention now! I've heard that there is grain in Egypt, so go down there and buy some grain for us, so we can live, instead of dying.|

3 So ten of Joseph's brothers left to buy grain from Egypt.

4 Jacob would not send Joseph's brother Benjamin to accompany them, because he was saying, |I'm afraid that he'll come to some kind of harm.|

5 Israel's sons went in a caravan that included others who were going to Egypt to buy grain, because the famine pervaded the land of Canaan, too.