Genesis 42:3

So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt.

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And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

In Context

2And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.

4But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with them, for fear, as he said, that some evil might come to him.

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Cross References

Genesis 42:13Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:2-7

Jacob Sends to Egypt to Buy Corn. ( b. c. 1706.) 1 Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another? 2 And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die. 3 And Joseph's ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt. 4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befal him. 5 And the sons of Israel came to… Read the whole commentary →

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