Genesis 43:1
\43:2\And when the grain which they had got in Egypt was all used up, their father said to them, Go again and get us a little food.
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And the famine was sore in the land.
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Genesis 12:10And because there was little food to be had in that land, he went down into Egypt.
Genesis 41:54Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.
Genesis 41:57And all lands sent to Egypt, to Joseph, to get grain, for the need was great over all the earth.
Ecclesiastes 9:1All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.
Acts 7:11Now there was no food to be had in all Egypt and Canaan, and there was great trouble: and our fathers were not able to get food.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 43:1
Here the story of Joseph's brethren is carried on, and very particularly related. I. Their melancholy parting with their father Jacob in Canaan, ver. 1-14 . II. Their pleasant meeting with Joseph in Egypt, ver. 15 , &c. For on this occasion nothing occurs there but what is agreeable and pleasant. Read the whole commentary →