Genesis 42:1-5 ▼

1 And Jacob sees that there is grain in Egypt, and Jacob says to his sons, “Why do you look at each other?”

2 He also says, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt, go down there, and buy for us from there, and we live and do not die”;

3 and the ten brothers of Joseph go down to buy grain in Egypt,

4 and Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob has not sent with his brothers, for he said, “Lest harm meet him.”

5 And the sons of Israel come to buy in the midst of those coming, for the famine has been in the land of Canaan,