Genesis 42:1

Jacob learned that there was grain for sale in Egypt, and he said to his sons, ‘Why do you stand looking at each other?

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

In Context

2I have heard that there is grain for sale in Egypt; go down there and buy for us, so that we may live and not die.’

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Cross References

Genesis 41:57The peoples of all lands came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, for the famine was severe throughout the world.

Joshua 7:10‘Get up,’ said the Lord to Joshua, ‘why are you lying on your face there?

Acts 7:12Hearing, however, that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob sent our ancestors there on their first visit.

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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