Genesis 42:1

And Jacob sees that there is grain in Egypt, and Jacob says to his sons, “Why do you look at each other?”

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In The King James Version

Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?

In Context

2He also says, “Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt, go down there, and buy for us from there, and we live and do not die”;

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Cross References

Genesis 41:57and all the earth has come to Egypt, to buy, to Joseph, for the famine was severe in all the earth.

Exodus 5:19And the authorities of the sons of Israel see them in affliction, saying, “You do not diminish from your bricks; the matter of a day in its day.”

Joshua 7:10And YHWH says to Joshua, “Rise, for you—why this—[that] you [are] falling on your face?

2 Kings 8:3And it comes to pass, at the end of seven years, that the woman turns back from the land of the Philistines, and goes out to cry to the king for her house and for her field.

Jeremiah 8:14Why are we sitting still? Be gathered, and we go into the fortified cities, || And we are silent there, || For our God YHWH has made us silent, || Indeed, He causes us to drink water of gall, || For we have sinned against YHWH.

Acts 7:12and Jacob having heard that there was grain in Egypt, sent forth our fathers a first time;

Matthew Henry on Genesis 42:1

We had, in the foregoing chapter, the fulfilling of the dreams which Joseph had interpreted: in this and the following chapters we have the fulfilling of the dreams which Joseph himself had dreamed, that his father's family should do homage to him. The story is very largely and particularly related of what passed between Joseph and his brethren, not only because it is an entertaining story, and probably was much talked of, both among the Israelites and among the Egyptians, but because it is very instructive, and… Read the whole commentary →

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