Genesis 42:1

And Jacob having seen that there was a sale of corn in Egypt, said to his sons, Why are ye indolent?

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

2Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt; go down thither, and buy for us a little food, that we may live, and not die.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:57And all countries came to Egypt to buy of Joseph, for the famine prevailed in all the earth.

Exodus 5:19And the accountants of the children of Israel saw themselves in an evil plight, men saying, Ye shall not fail to deliver the daily rate of the brickmaking.

Joshua 7:10And the Lord said to Joshua, Rise up; why hast thou fallen upon thy face?

2 Kings 8:3And it came to pass after the expiration of the seven years, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines to the city; and came to cry to the king for her house and for her lands.

Jeremiah 8:14Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the strong cities, and let us be cast out there: for God has cast us out, and made us drink water of gall, because we have sinned before him.

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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