Genesis 42:2
I have heard that wheat is sold in Egypt: go ye down, and buy us necessaries, that we may live, and not be consumed with want.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
1And Jacob hearing that food was sold in Egypt, said to his sons: Why are ye careless?
3So the ten brethren of Joseph went down, to buy corn in Egypt:
Cross References
Genesis 43:2And when they had eaten up all the corn, which they had brought out of Egypt, Jacob said to his sons: Go again and buy us a little food.
Genesis 43:8And Juda said to his father: Send the bou with me, that we may set forward, and may live: lest both we and our children perish.
Psalms 118:17I shall not die, but live: and shall declare the works of the Lord.
Matthew 4:4Who answered and said: It is written, Not in bread alone doth man live, but in every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God.
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 →