Genesis 42:1

Now Jacob became aware that there was grain in Egypt. He said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”

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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

2He said, “See here, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy for us from there so we may live and not die.”

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Cross References

Genesis 41:57All the earth was coming to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

Exodus 5:19The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You must not reduce the daily number of bricks.”

Joshua 7:10Yahweh said to Joshua, “Get up! Why are you lying there on your face?

2 Kings 8:3It came about at the end of seven years that the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, and she went to the king to beg him for her house and for her land.

Jeremiah 8:14Why are we sitting here? Come together; let us go to the fortified cities, and we will become silent there in death. 1 For Yahweh our God will silence us. He will make us drink poison, since we have sinned against him. 1

Acts 7:12But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers on their first trip.

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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