Genesis 42:2

I've heard there's grain in Egypt. Go there and buy some for us so we can stay alive—if not, we're going to die!”

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

1When Jacob found out grain was available in Egypt, he asked his sons, “Why do you keep on looking at each other to do something?

3So ten of Joseph's brothers went to Egypt to buy grain.

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Cross References

Genesis 43:2so once they had finished the grain they'd brought from Egypt, their father told them, “You have to go back and buy some more grain for us.”

Genesis 43:8Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy in my care, and we'll leave immediately, so that we can stay alive and not die—and that includes you and us and our children!

Psalms 118:17I'm not going to die. In fact I'm going to live, and let people know what the Lord has done.

Matthew 4:4Jesus answered, “As Scripture says, ‘Human beings do not live by only eating bread, but by every word that comes 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 →

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