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1 When Jacob heard there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, |Why are you looking at each other?| 2 He then said, |Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us so that we may live 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 said, |What if some accident happens to him?| 5 So Israel's sons came to buy grain among the other travelers, for the famine was severe in the land of Canaan. Genesis 42:1-5, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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