Genesis 42:4
But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s own brother, with his brothers; for he feared that some harm might come to him.
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3So Joseph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
5So the sons of Jacob went among others to buy grain, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Cross References
Genesis 11:4They said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will touch the heavens. We will make a landmark, so that we are not scattered over all the earth.”
Genesis 35:16Then they set out from Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel went into a hard and painful labor.
Genesis 43:14and may God Almighty grant that the man may be merciful to you and release Benjamin and your other brother. But if I am robbed of my sons, I am bereaved indeed!”
Genesis 44:20And we said to you, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one. Since his brother is dead, he is the only son of his mother who is left; and his father loves him.’
Genesis 44:29If you take this one also from me, and harm befall him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.’
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 →